There are a couple of instances that are clearly misaligned with my values, but they’re very active, so a lot of the communities keep popping up in my feed. I’ve been blocking the communities, but it would be pretty cool if I could just block the entire instance. I know an instance can defederate from another instance. Is there a way for an individual user to do something similar, short of spinning up an entire instance myself?
While I’m upset that OP doesn’t want to see hexbear posts, this is actually a good idea. It’s practically impossible to block an instance’s communities one by one. I just want to be able to filter them out from the “All” view. I have no issues with individual users’ comments showing up. Federation is awesome but I’d like to have the tools to customize “All” to my liking. (edit: Alternatively consider adding another customizable view mode next to subscribed/local/all)
Also please consider the suggestion posted here: https://hexbear.net/comment/3744501
That seems like a pretty cool idea - though I do think there would also need to be a push for mobile apps to support a similar concept. While I personally don’t, I am sure there are plenty of people who only browse the Fediverse on mobile.
Also on a side note, those are some pretty good additions to Hexbear’s code of conduct.