How to view the list of blocked communities?

moeggz@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 13 points –

Now that I (I think) understand federation I was going to unblock the beehaw communities since I should still be able to vote and comment on them but I can’t find them now.

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If you mean the list of communities blocked by a server, go to the home page of that server (for example https://lemmy.world/), scroll down all the way to the bottom and find the "Instances" link on the bottom-right of the page.

If you mean those you blocked, go into your user settings, next to the "Settings" tab there's a "Blocks" tab, click it to see what you blocked.

You can view federated and blocked instances in /instances like this

https://beehaw.org/instances

https://lemmy.world/instances

You can see that beehaw has a lot of blocked instances, while lemmy.world has only 1.

Oh, thanks, this is really useful! I didn't realize Beehaw blocked so many. Any clue what the reason is for the one blocked instance from .world?

AFAIK there were trolls commenting and harassing beehaw communities from .world and lemmy (I believe also Kbin) lack proper moderation tools to counter that. Supposedly it's only temporarily blocked until those required tools are implemented.

Right, exactly

Ah sorry I looked at your question again and noticed I misread your question. No idea why that one instance was blocked.