I can say from experience being mixed white and Japanese I’ll always be a second class citizen there.

Can’t speak for Russia but I knew a woman who once said she envied her mother because she was “pure”, pale skin and blonde hair, while she had dark hair and more eastern (Mongolian heritage?) features. That was really painful to hear someone say about themselves and if it’s the prevalent attitude I wouldn’t assume I’m welcome just by a blood connection.

Thank you, I found it in the browser version

I couldn’t see how, I’m using Connect on android. Searching settings for “language” didn’t show any results.

I did find “blocked instances includes comments” though, I’ve toggled it off and will see what happens.

Yes exactly. Even anime or TV shows i enjoy i block for fear of spoilers.

Yes so do I, that’s my problem. I want to be able to filter content to my interests by category, not individually. It’s tiresome to block nba, nfl, futebol, even individual teams. A blocklist i could import for “sport” would be a huge experience improvement for me, just as I imagine for a sports fan if they so wished could block all “anime”.