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Do you mean individual instance blocking?
There's a problem with that
As far as I understand it that would mean that they're votes still federate on posts and comments.
So you may block them but their influence on posts will still be felt.
Honestly switching to an instance that isn't federated with them or trying to convince your local admins to do so is the better option.
Though being on Lemmy.ml convince the admins will likely be a serious uphill battle.
Personally I specifically looked for an instance that defederates only illegal content, I can do the blocking of content I donβt care for myself. The most important thing is that I get as close to no preselected bias in my feed as possible.
From there I can block or hide whatever, I just want it to be my choice. Which is why I find all the defederation calls concerning. Use the blocking feature, defederation excludes discourse as well, and I would rather not sit in an echo chamber.
I fully agree. Iβm here so that I can avoid the political echo chambers like Reddit and Facebook. Itβs been bizarre seeing the calls to turn Lemmy into Facebook.
I mean having thw insrance not show in your feed. I know Connect has that but I want something that is proper FOSS.
I just double checked, and Sync lets you filter instances so they don't show on your feed. You'll still see their comments, but at least they won't leak into your feed.
Also specific pages can be filtered so it's not the whole instance, or users, so they don't show up when scrolling. Still not sure if it blocks the user though, because I don't always remember who I filtered.