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I'd prefer not.
I think the benefits of the extra user base outweighs the negatives a percentage of those users bring.
Lemmy is already small and fragmented enough.
@trk Coming from Mastodon, I have already learnt that it's not worth putting up with the negatives just to get a few extra users.
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Is it worth growing if the growth is coming from toxic users? Hexbear users aren’t providing us value, in my opinion. Nearly every time I see them, they’re being rude arseholes. They set out to cause other people pain. If the growth of the Threadiverse requires letting in people who are deliberately hurting others, is growth really worthwhile?
I've not seen a disproportionate amount of drama from any particular instance, though I do have a habit of simply ignoring trolls and extremists which has been honed from years of participation on Usenet and forums.
I feel there's more drama being generated at the minute from posts complaining about users from particular instances, than there is from the posts by the users from those instances.
It feels more like tribalism than solving the paradox of tolerance.
It's also going to lead to the exact same bubble that Facebook etc generate by only giving you content you agree with. I'd rather see the content and choose to ignore it or argue against it rather than never see it in the first place.
In my opinion it is better to block the instance on an account level, unless the instance is engaging in more than saying words people don't like.