Reddit became popular through dangerous openness. I resent having some admin curate my experience. Give users more control to curate their own experiences. Stop getting in the way of what I want to read.
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Yeah, the solution is more tools for users to filter content. There's also been a discussion around general nsfw vs porn, which would also be nice to have as a deeper way to customise the experience on an individual level.
In general, I'm much more in favour of personal ability to filter, sort and categorise other posters, communities and instances, to really make it "your Lemmy", and less of a focus on making decisions for us on an admin/mod level.
We don't yet have the ability to block entire instances as users, as far as I know. All we can do is ask the admins to defederate. It sounds like there is a lot of interest in adding this feature, though.
If we could block entire instances at the user level, how much need would there be for the feature you suggested? As far as I know, there are only a small handful of instances that are seen as objectionable, so it seems like a small task to block them at the user level (if/when we are able to).
Admin level blocking will always have to be a thing purely to keep content illegal in the admins' and hoster's jurisdictions out of the caches of the instance.
Several third party Lemmy apps have instance blocking features. Connect does, and I think Sync does too. I've blocked two or three instances.
Why are you people constantly looking for ways to push your personal content curation onto everyone else? How about instead of crying that it's too much work to manually curate your own feed, you just do it, and stop trying to curate everyone else's