Do you mean an entire instance? Heaps of people are asking for this.

Blocking an individual community is trivial however, and can be done by opening the community sidebar and hitting block.

I imagine they are in damage control mode and are hoping to stem the outflow of users’ attention spans to the Lemmyverse while their current actions are the Current Thing.

I reckon they are budgeting for a 1-2 week martial law period to try and stabilise and will probably force open all the closed subs and make use of repost and chatGPT bots to simulate decent engagement, possibly even paying for comments too.

It would also be very interesting if they roll back on their censorship of open discussion of certain topics to attract back previously “resettled” users.

Currently the admins have to curate this for you through federation, although you can try and whack a mole individual communities from an instance. Heaps of people are asking for user level control of blocking instances and I hope it comes soon as there’s a couple instances I keep seeing federated into my feed that I find abhorrent, and this growth phase of Lemmy means new communities on those instances keep appearing.

It desperately needs lower friction remote community subscribing and a user migration workflow between instances.

The History Guy has a few decent niche tech videos. I think he did one on the invention of screws which was kind of interesting.

Is the Boost dev aware of this?