I know itβs possible to block instances, but you can still see comments from their users.
If you block an instance, all that instance's users - posts, comments up/down votes - disappear completely. At least that has been my experience.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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This isn't true. You can still see comments from a user on a blocked instance if they are commenting outside that instance
For example, this is a post on my home instance and I have hexbear blocked
Thanks, I'm not going crazy
That's super-weird. I have Hexbear blocked as a whole and I never see anything Hexbear. Likewise, I have most Lemmygrad communities blocked piecemeal (but not the instance blocked whole - yet) and ~~anything to do with those communities too are correctly disappeared.~~
EDIT: After double-checking. OP is correct
I would wonder if your instance defederated them. The op and I are in the same instance, and it has a largely hands-off approach to defederation. (mostly only defederated instances that allow people/bots to share csam and similar content)
No. I chose my instance - SDF - precisely because they don't defederate with any other instance and they let users do it for themselves.
Interesting. Can you see this comment by Kieselguhr@ hexbear.net assuming you don't separately have them blocked? https://lemm.ee/comment/20182920
I chose a different user who commented in that same thread I referenced above. I definitely have that instance blocked because I just double checked my filters
Oh damn yeah, I do:
It must be a new bug then, because it wasn't like that before. I know because I explicitely checked when I blocked Hexbear.
Also, I realize that I don't see the commenters' instance. So it's easy to miss they're from a blocked instance.
Settings - > Appearance -> scroll to the bottom - > toggle "Show user instance"
Edit to add: hexbear specifically only recently came back to life. They were out of commission for a couple months because the person who held the certificate or however you call it for hosting the server disappeared. There was some drama about the instance name going up for auction afterwards. They are back to Lemmy as of a month or so ago
thanks i had been wondering for a few weeks how to do this.
Thanks!
As for Hexbear, I had blocked it way before their dumb-dumb moment.
FWIW I have gone back to Jerboa: it works as expected wrt blocked instances and users, but also it lets me post in Markdown - something Voyager doesn't seem to do, and I never noticed before.
Voyager blocking behaves exactly the same as in jerboa, since both let the backend do it.
As for markdown, what do you mean? Like a WYSIWYG editor? If so, Voyager prefers to write markdown directly. Fun fact: it was actually one of the main design goals of markdown!
Well, all I know is that Jerboa seems to hide comments from Hexbear dwellers while Voyager doesn't.
As for Markup, I tried posting a comment with a ~~...~~ marker in Voyager, and it showed up as ~~some text~~, whereas it correctly showed up as strikethrough text ~~some text~~ in Jerboa.
The strikethrough you posted works fine in Voyager. If something specific doesn't work, please post in !voyagerapp@lemmy.world (or better yet, a GitHub issue) so I can fix. :)
Not sure what's going on with hexbear, but I doubt they block those users in app. Maybe you're using an instance that is defederated from them or something.
Kinda unrelated, but why is ur username purple ?
I'm the voyager dev and you're using the voyager app :)
Oh. The app is nice btw.
Jerboa is developed by the main Lemmy devs, if I remember correctly. Nutonic (one of the two main devs) confirmed in that thread I linked above that they don't have the option to block comments from users of blocked instances yet, because they are still working on it.
Also, I'm surprised you can't post in markdown, because I use markdown often when commenting in the daily game community.
Thanks for the answer, so either I have a bug or I've blocked the wrong instance (with a close name)
Edit: I've checked, the instance is correctly spelled, I'll try clearing cache / reinstalling
I'd think your best bet would be to join an instance that has defederated from the one you don't want to see.
Thanks for the tip, I think I'll do that
same i dont like to see ml and hexbear, constantly posting garbage whines the same way conservatives do.