This is very intriguing.... I actually work in CBC (nowhere near content or with the social media people who'd make these kinds of decisions), but as a developer I get 20% time to dabble with anything I think might be useful. I haven't used it in a while, but a CBC ActivityPub instance may be just the right project, especially if it can auto-publish our content from the same feeds that power our site.
Hazzard
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I also feel like a lot of the value of chronological is lost if I think it's algorithmic recommendations. If I don't know I'm browsing the latest? I'll likely just think the algorithm is serving up some garbage. Especially somewhere like Facebook, where people haven't really been curating their feed for years, just... following whoever to be polite and letting the algorithm take care of it.
Yeah man, same boat. I actually do have NSFW disabled, but I've still blocked at least a dozen or two lemmynsfw communities for actresses, celebs, gentlemenboners, ladyboners, ladyladyboners, just a metric ton of SFW porn communities.
Would make things so much easier if I could outright block the instance, and heck, maybe I'd even turn on NSFW in that case.
Gotta be Google Play Music I'm still bitter about. YouTube music doesn't hold a candle to it, and I've never quite been as happy with Spotify or Apple Music. Getting YT Premium with a good music service was great too, but they shot themselves in the foot.
And there's was just... no reason for it. They even delayed its death when they realized how crap YT Music was, and then later just... decided to do it anyways.
I've recommended it to my friends, but they've instead chosen to take the fall of Reddit as an opportunity to just... step back from the internet. One friend just... isn't browsing Reddit at all on mobile anymore, and is instead just using old.reddit.com on desktop, and culled most of the subs he used to follow, keeping only some small communities.
I respect it, but still feel something like Reddit has a place in my life, but have no faith whatsoever in Reddit itself, and the apps are better here, so I'm completely switched over. I imagine they may still move here in time. Lemmy is a part of my life now, so I'll continue to mention it and share links to things from it, but I've no desire to force the issue.
Personally, I'm subscribing to the belief that the fediverse's attribute of "true censorship is impossible" is a benefit, not a curse. Every prior example of censorship has just morphed into "advertiser palatable". Which is bad for everyone.
More than happy to have access to instances that will take the kind of drastic action you're suggesting, access to my own "block" function, etc. Let them come.
The fediverse will inevitably host some messed up stuff. Counting it a blessing that those people have a clear place to go to and sequester themselves off.
So ultimately? More than happy to have an instance that agrees with this extreme anti-censorship posture. Sh.itjustworks is fine in my books. I can block the community, just like I could block subreddits on Reddit without abandoning the whole platform. Hell, even write a script to block everyone who's subscribed to the community. The power is yours now, and nobody can take that away. That's the fediverse.
You're probably making a joke, but I'll explain it just in case anyway. It's Prequel Trilogy (movies 1-3), Original Trilogy (movies 4-6), Sequel Trilogy (movies 7-9), and Expanded Universe (books, TV shows, comics, games, etc), fairly established terms within the Star Wars fandom.
As a bonus, there's also "Legends", referring to the EU content Disney decanonized when they started the sequels.