Joined lemmy.ca from Lemmy.ml. no hexbear trolls here

I'm using Connect and it provides an option to block an instance

Just block the main communities that pop up. Most of their shit disappears of you block like five hexbear communities and lemmygrad.

Yeah I was using lemm.ee but the hexbear spam in the threads was ridiculous. They were swarming the meta thread discussing defederating them too, and it seemed like the instance admin was determined to keep federating with them. Went on the hunt to join a popular instance that doesn't federate with them. There's a few out there that do block the annoying authoritarian/boot-licking trifecta of lemmygrad, explodingheads, and hexbear. Sopuli.xyz was the one I ended up joining.

On Lemmy itself it hasn't been implemented, though there is an issue related to it on their github. There are clients that do it but it's client-side only at the moment.

Next update will allow you to personally defederate with them even if your instance hasn't. If you'd like. You can also very easily migrate to a new instance, if you'd prefer thaf route.

if you're incapable of seeing perspectives outside the mainstream I hear Reddit is nice this time of year