I think the problem is that just like you (and me), they might not know what their purpose is. 😂

1. Do not run a root account for regular stuff. This is a lot less common now since most distros require you to create a non-root account during install and a lot of the systems annoy you if you’re running as root, but you’d be surprised by the sheer number of people who use accounts with UID 0 daily. This may also be caused by “”“more experienced”“” friends/family setting it up that way to try cutting corners regarding access rights, but the bottom line is: don’t be that person. Use root when necessary only.

2. Get into the habit of not blindly running every command you see online or trying every trick you read/hear, at least not on your main system. Try to setup a VM (or multiple) for the purpose of trying stuff out or running something you’re not sure what the impact might be.

3. Keep your system updated, from kernel to userland.

4. Get into the habit of reading news regarding exploits, malware and the responses for them. You don’t need to become an infosec professional or even understand what they actually do. What is important is for you to learn what to avoid and when something really bad is discovered so you can update as soon as possible.

These 4 steps are arguably more important and create better results than any anti-virus could ever hope to do for you. They won’t ever get to 100% security, but then again, nothing will.

Yeah I believe you’d have to do it per account. I also think any clients that implement filtering “globally” are bound to cause confusion in users who will forget that they blocked on one account and wonder why they can’t find it on another.

Memmy doesn’t even seem to have a centralized place to see blocked communities yet, so I think that would need to be implemented first.

I too browse All but am not interested in quite some of the communities that pop up from time to time. But in my experience, just tapping on the community and blocking it seems to do what you’ve requested. Is that not working for you?

Edit: one related request I’d like to sneak in, is to add “Block Community” to the burger menu for the post. Currently it only has Block User, which forces us to go into the community first in order to be able to block it.

I notice the improvements regarding zooming/tapping (thank you), but I’d like to report what seems to be a bug.

It seems like the app is only loading low-quality images in some cases. I just noticed it after seeing a post on https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]. Following onto the community I saw that on every post there the image is low-quality, it’s even hard to read the captions in some cases. Tapping on the share button shows them in the low kilobytes in size.

So far that’s the only community I’ve seen the problem on, though. I’ll report back if I notice it elsewhere, but I’m not sure how to confirm it’s an isolated problem or if there is something I can toggle to change the behavior.

For me the biggest highlight is the navigation bar swipes support. This is what Apollo did best in my opinion and I’m glad Memmy started to have it as well. Thank you!