@snow @puzzl Hello Snow and welcome to Qoto!

I am glad you got assistance from Puzzl, as I was in sleepland for a while. Yes, this is one of the great things in Mastodon -- that every user has the ability to selectively Block any user, or even a whole instance, that they object to.

There are some annoying people, and people who try to make moeny merchandising erotic images and services. It's good that these have migrated to a few servers that are easily identified and blocked, as you have already done.

In some cases there are images that are worrisome to people in many jurisdictions -- as they might depict children in unpleasant ways.

The mastodon.social instance, the home of the project developr and one of the largest ones around, blocks all media, images from pawoo.net due to that.

I would just mention that if you do block that whole server you would lose access to one of my favourite accounts - the totally innocent Cat Posting Bot @catpostingbot

If you have any questions, please ask.

We have some guides for new users available too, if you like.

If you are new to using Mastodon, there's a good guide here: https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235

We also have another new users guide, posted here : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/suggestions-and-guidelines-for-new-users-written-by-mastodon-art-administrator

Casey Rollins made a video to explain the Fediverse, here :

"I made this video awhile back to help explain how the #Fediverse works."

https://www.bitchute.com/video/XOtRcgIdqihs/
https://invidio.us/yBRrqbRQ3tM
https://youtu.be/yBRrqbRQ3tM

Have a good day!