I'm using Connect for Lemmy which has the option to block instances as well as communities. After seeing several posts I wasn't interested in seeing from hexbear I decided to block the instance. I'm simply not interested in seeing pro-communist content, which is what all the posts I was seeing were related to. Or at least the ones I noticed from hexbear.

I tried it when it first came out but it kept failing due to a bug. I've been meaning to try it out again

I've had more success with Manjaro than any other distro. I've gotten lots of software working because of the great package manager, all using a GUI. I think it's really easy to use and at the same time really flexible and powerful. I've tried to install Arch twice and failed both times. I guess I'm an idiot. Manjaro is easy to install and you get all the power a flexibility of Arch's package management.