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.
I'm just using the browser version. I guess I could try an app.
I added screenshots to show what I mean in the OP
Huh, that DEFINITELY seems like an oversight. The entire community control block is replaced with a "You Are Banned" message.
There is an alternate browser UI called Photon, try this:
https://photon.lemmy.world/
https://photon.lemmy.world/c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
lemmy.ml seems unsupported, and that's my instance of choice
:( I tried! I messaged our admins to see if it's a lemmy bug or a lemmy.world bug.
Edit Looks like a Lemmy bug, but I can confirm it does work in Boost, I bet if you set it up there, the setting will follow you.
That's because they linked photon.lemmy.world... this is why I was hesitant to allow instances to link photon to them.
Anyway, you can use https://phtn.app/ (the official URL, like vger.app) to use any instance.