Wonder what the reasoning behind that is. Some of the takes people (devs and users) have had on Lemmy design decisions have been frankly a bit weird too – like when someone requested instance blocking so they could block Lemmygrad:

Nutomic: Would it be an option for you to switch to another instance which blocks lemmygrad.ml? For example https://sopuli.xyz/ or https://beehaw.org/

dessalines: This may be a non-issue, because I've added an easy way to block communities from that community page in the next release (you could already block them by going into your user settings). So you could just block communities from instances you'd rather not see, as they show up in your feed.

I kind of agree with nutomic tho, that if you don't want to see communism in your feed, you're better off signing up for an explicitly anti-communist instance.

And someone suggested instance blocks be logged and reported to admins:

ericjmorey: The implementation of this feature should include a log and reporting accessable to instance admins of when a blocking action was taken and the current state of which instances are being blocked by which accounts.

It has changed since then. 19.4 or 19.5