…Eh, as a stranger from another instance, I respectfully disagree.

I too came to Lemmy with the mindset of “don’t block anyone,” but honestly, lemmy.ml can be a lot. It derails normal threads, sometimes. If yall are going for a retro-games focused instance, it’s a reasonable thing to filter.

I like interacting with many of .ml's communities too, but I also understand an attempt at instance curation.