I find that having the option to block by keywords, instances, communities and users let's me curate my feed exactly as I want. What I wouldn't want is for the blocks to be too broad of a brush (like in the users of instances example), which would lead to missing out on valuable conversations.
I also never understood why they removed most of the NPCs. I loved seeing all the random city people around, help the odd one out and have some of them get aggressive. TD2's city felt pretty dead in comparison.
Strongly disagree. I want to block certain instances from my feed to remove posts I'm not interested in (eg NSFW, repost bots), but I have nothing against the users.
If users are blocked too, please add that behind a setting toggle.
The examples are really good! While not perfect, in really happy that thale model is not completely ignoring large parts of the prompt like most image generation models do.
I'm very confused by this post. Maybe it's because I'm using a client (Sync), but I was able to select my default post and sort for my homepage, so my instance owners had no say in it. I rarely ever go to my Local or Subscribed feeds because I have a very healthy blocked instance/user/keywords list, so I like to spend time on Everything since other feeds don't have enough content to fit my needs.
Seems to work well enough, I don't see my instance taking over my feed at all.
I would recommend using a client that allows instance and/or keyword blocking. I believe Sync and Connect on Android offer these features amongst others. I would also raise this issue with the dev of whatever client you're using, as a lot of clients now have this feature.
The Lemmy backend is also getting instance blocking shortly.
Yeah, but those were the NPCs in bases, etc. I meant just random people out on the street, I think there were none or fewer