I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.
Good question. I’m not sure. I still don’t even know how users can block entire instances, just communities within those instances.
blocking instances for users was added in 0.19. it works like community block: you don’t see any posts from an instance, but you can see the activity of users from that instance on any other instances where they do stuff.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3869
[this is not an endorsement of deferating with any meta product. i believe in deplatforming hostile actors, which they’ve well and truly proven themselves to be.]