Another reddit.world community got mad at me for saying “death to US” and now I’m banned. That’s fine! But why can’t I block them now? I am forced to see their posts every time I go to /all and can’t comment or vote, so am effectively forced to view content without any ability to interact.

I don’t want to see their posts and should be able to block them from my /all feed

Here look! When I’m not banned there’s a clear option to block the community:

But after being banned I now can’t block the community, I’m forced to keep seeing it in my feed!

SOLVED: From the user settings page there is a tab for Blocks next to the tab for Settings, and you can manually search for the community you wish to block in a search bar. That worked, even if the UI on the community page was messed up by the block message.

  • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Presumably it’s just the UI that is hidden, there may not be an invalid permission check on the API. You could block/unblock another community while looking at your browser’s network log, and then use that as a template to manually construct a request to block the desired community.

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        1 month ago

        JFC, just degauss the variadic field compensator until the flux is quantized within a few attohenrys of the inverted 2’s-complement of the upstream carrier signal (ie the hash of the community’s GUID after salting with your home server’s UIN), end it with a proper terminator block, and you’re done!! I swear, nobody has basic computer literacy anymore.