Hey fellow Lemmy Users!

As far as i can tell, instance blocking is good for not destroying the All feed but what bugs me is that it seems like i am not able to subscribe to communities of blocked instances. I know that the big instances will try not to “abuse” this “power” for censoring the endusers choice but i think having this option is not good. I dont know if its possible with ActivityPub to limit connections between instances or if it always needs to be a true/false thing.

There could be different stages of blocking:

• Users from instance x are blocked on our instance / our Users are not affected if they want to interact with instance x

• Post from instance x are blocked in our All feed but our users can still access the instance

• Full block, just like it is now

If i’m completely wrong about blocking, sorry for wasting your time. Tell me what you think about this!