I find the inclusion of every federated instance in ‘All’ fairly annoying. New tiny/niche/vanity instances get added by default when federated. There ends up being too much duplication and stuff I’m not interested in.
I’d much rather a system that only includes the local instance by default with a way to discover and add other instances.
My instance block list is long but there’s always new instances to block. For me, this a design flaw of the fediverse.
Great point about feeds. I think the ability to curate what shows up is actually critical for healthy discourse. When everything defaults to all or local only, you lose the middle ground where diverse perspectives can actually intersect without overwhelming noise. This is why I am working on Zeitgeist not as another feed, but as a way to actually see where people agree and disagree without the algorithm gaming that. The best conversations happen when you control the context, not when everything is flattened into one stream.