I understand the tension between the communists and the anti-communists here (and that’s not going to be resolved in this thread), but the most baffling perspective in this thread are the people just wanting instance blocking. Why are you browsing All and then being upset that it’s full of posts from outside your normal bubble? Lemmy’s All filter is just like r/all: a mess of wildly different people, interests, and viewpoints. That’s kinda the point, isn’t it?

Lemmy provides subscriptions to specific communities based on your personal interests. That’s going to have the most relevance to you. Settings in every app allow you to pick it as the default view. Use the community explorer to find new communities that actually interest you.

In either case, the focus on instance seems weird. Lemmy is deliberately built around communities. It shouldn’t matter where your Lemmy account is hosted: you can subscribe/lurk/participate/ignore any community regardless. It seems like instances are more of an implementation/infrastructure detail. Anytime we start deliberately filtering/censoring/breaking the infrastructure, the more useless it becomes. Defederation actively undermines the network effect that makes Lemmy compelling.