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You can't. It isn't possible right now, but from what I've heard they're working on adding this feature. No indication of when they'll add it, but it is coming.
For now, you can use Connect to block instances. It only applies when you're using the app but it's pretty useful regardless.
You can just block individual bots if you don't like what they're posting. Might take some work but in time you'll be able to curate your feed such that the only bot posts you see are the ones you want to see
There's a tiny ad banner that appears at the top of the discover page on Stremio, but it can easily be disabled by blocking Stremio's ad domain in the hosts file.
Is this still a thing? I thought this was mostly popular in the 90s and dropped out of popularity in the last couple decades.
Oh, I know what the issue there is. Apparently because Kbin is based on an older version of the ActivityPub protocol, when Kbin magazines are synced into Lemmy, posts from before the magazine was synced don't show up. The only posts that show up on Lemmy are ones made after the magazine is synced, unlike the way it works between Lemmy instances where everything is synced all at once. I'm not sure if there's anything the Lemmy devs can do to fix this. It might take Kbin switching to the latest version of the ActivityPub protocol for this to stop being an issue, but I'm unsure if the Kbin devs are willing to do that. They seem to be focusing on getting their API out right now.
I also found Kbin's interface fairly awkward and all over the place. Lemmy's Reddit-style interface is more to my preference personally. If you're concerned about missing out on content from Kbin communities as I was when I first migrated, you can easily subscribe to Kbin magazines through the Lemmy Explorer, that way you'll still be able to see stuff from Kbin without having to deal with Kbin's UI.
Since no one has posted it yet, this site hosts a massive dump of every RARBG release ever, and you can easily search through it. Games, movies, shows, books, everything RARBG ever released is available there. There's 5 and a half petabytes of data there, it's absurdly large.
the best thing is to try any VPN service for a few days or a week to see whether anything annoying happens in your use case before jumping into a long term contract.
Agreed, that's actually what I did with AirVPN myself before switching to it. Got their 3 day plan and used it the whole way through until I knew the service would work for me. It's too bad not every service offers short plans this way. Fortunately, a lot of them do have 30 day refund policies, so you can just get any plan then cancel and request a refund before the 30 days are out.
Its also possible that the AirVPN servers that you use are not blocked like they are for mine
I think that might be the issue. I almost always connect through Canada servers, since those are always the fastest servers for torrenting and browsing when I sort the servers on the interface by latency vs torrent speeds. I do sometimes connect through their New York servers though, and haven't really noticed any blocking when I do. Maybe they only block some US servers and not others, or I just don't connect through the New York servers often enough to notice any blocking.
Solution: do stuff with your friends on your computer.