@Ace Ice No, there are absolutely lemmy instances which don't block everyone. I can still sometimes interact with a lemmy person, but it's not a surefire thing. 

 @Christmassy Merry Dude im surprised you're even finding new people at all to converse with all i ever see on the federated timeline is bot posts or news related posts 

 dont you have distributed moderation to handle bots like on nostr?