Blocking, Hiding, Ignoring?

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 20:56:34 +0100

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Crow wrote the following post Fri, 09 Dec 2022 20:56:34 +0100

Blocking, Hiding, Ignoring?

If I block someone, can I then hide and ignore them without changing the block?

Related: in Admin/security, do the various site text entries accept wild cards?

Blocking Hiding

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Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:21:00 +0100

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

As a long time Hubzilla user, I find myself thinking "Do we actually have all 3 of those options and, if we do, what's the difference between them?" I know we have superblock. It has been a while since I've used it, but last time I did, there was no need to take any other action, because they effectively disappeared from my world.

Sat, 10 Dec 2022 05:47:04 +0100

Tanja

tanja@hz.lazyteddy.eu

Related: in Admin/security, do the various site text entries accept wild cards?

Unfortunately, no.

Are you on a dedicated server / VPS, or on shared hosting?

Sat, 10 Dec 2022 15:02:22 +0100

Crow

crow@commonworlds.org

@Tanja I’m set up at my web host. So I guess that counts as shared hosting.

Sun, 11 Dec 2022 17:40:02 +0100

Tanja

tanja@hz.lazyteddy.eu

@Crow Ok, in that case my solution won't work. I started blocking instances on the system firewall. The main reason in my case was that I'm not interested in connecting to anybody on ActivityPub but kept getting hammered from Mastodon servers, so I'm simply blocking the lot of them. This would work for individual instances as well, and since it's done with fail2ban and regexes it would also work for wildcard domains, but not on shared hosting.

Sun, 11 Dec 2022 22:53:26 +0100

Mike Macgirvin

mike@macgirvin.com

Wildcards no, but the check is done on a "substring match" so unless you have unusual requirements it should be pretty easy to achieve the same result. For instance if you block 'gab' you block any site whose name contains 'gab' such as gab.com, gab.ai, gab.club, cdn.gab.net, gabber.info, gabbadabba.do, etc.

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:17:55 +0100

Crow

crow@commonworlds.org

@mike Does that mean I could just put in part of a URL and any url matching it would be blocked? that’s effectively a wild card.

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:45:42 +0100

Mike Macgirvin

mike@macgirvin.com

Yes.