Blocking & Moderation Tools

Bonfire provides flexible tools to help you manage your experience, protect your boundaries, and keep your community safe.

Flagging or Hiding Posts

• Flag: Report a post to moderators for review. You should explain what boundaries were broken and what action you request.
• Hide: Remove a post from your feed. You can still view it via direct link.

Blocking: Silencing & Ghosting

• Silence: Hides all content from a user in your feeds. You won't see their posts, mentions, or messages, but you can still view their profile via direct link.
• Ghost: Prevents a user or instance from seeing or interacting with you or your content. They won't see your private posts, can't follow you, and you can't mention or message them.
• Block: Combines both silence and ghost—when you block someone, you both stop seeing each other's content and interactions.

You can manage your block, silence, and ghost lists from the Safety section in the sidebar.

Importing Block Lists

Bonfire lets you import blocklists from trusted sources to silence or ghost multiple users or instances at once.

• Go to Import block lists under Safety.
• Choose a source (e.g. Garden Fence, Seirdy's lists, Fediseer).
• Select import type and upload the CSV file.
• Review and confirm the import.

Moderator and Admin Powers

• Instance admins can block, silence, or ghost users for all local users.
• Moderators review flagged posts and take action as needed (such as talking to the participants to facilitate a resolution, or hiding or blocking and deleting content or profiles).

Tips

• Use blocking, silencing, and ghosting to protect your boundaries and curate your experience.
• Import blocklists to benefit from community curation.
• Flag posts that break boundaries or codes of conduct for moderator review, and hide ones that you simply do not want to see.

For more on boundaries and privacy, see Circles & Boundaries.