This seems to ignore a basic use case of Lemmy. Scrolling through all or local posts. Something I imagine most users of Lemmy do. Blocking is useful and would be even if this use case didn't exist, which it does.
Addendum: Yes we know that you think ml/hexbear/grad are tankies and or .world are a bunch of liberals but it gets old quickly. Try and come up with new material.
Because it's pull-based rather than push-based, so if you don't want to see something, don't sub it.
This seems to ignore a basic use case of Lemmy. Scrolling through all or local posts. Something I imagine most users of Lemmy do. Blocking is useful and would be even if this use case didn't exist, which it does.
It allows you to curate your all-feed as well.