Mastodawn

How do i block @bsky.brid.gy in Sharkey, pls?

The entire domain.

Unlike Masto, when i inspect the Profile of someone on that egregious platform whom i've found in my #Sharkey / blahaj.zone timeline, there is only the options to mute & block that single user, but no associated option to block the entire domain.

Help, pls? 🤷

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Droppie Jul 11, 2025

There's now starting to be a flood of posts from diverse accounts on the accursed @bsky.brid.gy domain, & i Do Not Like It. Another interwebz search still proved useless. Tbh i feel surprised & disappointed that this otherwise impressive software appears to have provided users with no simple tool to achieve whole-domain blocking [unless it's right under my nose & i'm too dim to see it; always possible!].

I contemplated this; block an individual account on that domain, eg, "[email protected]", then Export my blocklist, edit it in a text file to be *@bsky.brid.gy, then Import it. Seems ridiculous to need to go to such a workaround, & anyway atm i have no idea if wildcards are even recognised in Sharkey's blocklists.

However, i have realised this morn that iirc, most or maybe all of these damn unwanted accounts are appearing in one specific timeline of mine; my #Antenna [which i use for all my #FollowedHashtags]. So now i have edited said Antenna & inserted @bsky.brid.gy to its Exclude field. Will this work?

#Sharkey #DomainBlock #BlockBluesky

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Azahara Jul 11, 2025

@[email protected] ok i can't edit the post for reasons and I want to make it more concise because it went off the rails a lil bit: it's not you, sharkey doesn't do filtering nor blocking well, you can only mute domains as a user and i'm not sure of the full implications.

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Azahara Jul 11, 2025

@[email protected] I have a whole bunch of domains muted, it's on settings, mutes and blocks, instance mutes.

of course im not sure what sharkey means with mute and block (as in, how different they are compared to mastodon, akkoma, etc, I don't think there's that much consistency).

I'm not partivularly worried myself because I don't mind the ocasional post from the rare human user of mastodon dot social to get boosted into view, but I also quickly learned filtering is by far sharkey's weakest aspect, shit gets randomly surfaced with mutes, they are case sensitive (so you often need to use eeveral lines for the same thing), they don't account for subdomains (i.e.: muting brid.gy does not mute bsky.brid.gy)... in other words, blergh.