Instance blocking doesn't seem to work for me, I still see posts from those instances coming through. Though once I did stumble across a post where the comments were hidden because of that.
Though I don't really want to block replies from instances, just threads (content that I don't care about or cannot understand because it's in a different language)
@insomniac_lemon Strange how its inconsistent like that . Can't block even certain "compatible" instance domains (want to block unilem.org bcus its explicit no defed policy , but typing in kbin.social/d/unilem.org does nothing)