That depends on your client. Connect for lemmy shows a placeholder for comments from blocked instances. You can click to show the comment anyway or just blissfully ignore the high probability rage bait.
Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?
14th_cylon@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoProblem is that blocking the instance doesn’t block these clowns’ comments on other instances, you have to do a lot of manual blocking.
Fermion@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
Lemm.ee basically doesn’t defederate anything. You should probably go to an instance that defederates those instances.
14th_cylon@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
While I would prefer defederation in this case, I found being on an instance ran by competent admin small price to pay.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some instances are defederated from them, which would prevent them from being seen elsewhere.
OpenStars@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
That would work for some - hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml - but not for others, like lemmy.ml and maybe Midwest.social. At some point users need to start blocking on their own.