I find the inclusion of every federated instance in ‘All’ fairly annoying. New tiny/niche/vanity instances get added by default when federated. There ends up being too much duplication and stuff I’m not interested in.

I’d much rather a system that only includes the local instance by default with a way to discover and add other instances.

My instance block list is long but there’s always new instances to block. For me, this a design flaw of the fediverse.

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[–] markz@suppo.fi 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Does instance block block everything from the instance?

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Essentially, yes. I think you still see comments from users on that instance if they comment on a post on an instance that isn’t blocked.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Blocking all foreign posts, even on local communities sounds like it might be an unwanted side effect.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I think for maximum control it would be cool to have separate

Block communities from instance
Block posts from instance
Block comments from instance

That might be too many buttons though. Maybe hide them in your settings as separate block lists, and when you click the existing "block instance" button it just adds it to all 3 of the lists