Ithilwen

Exactly! Because sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came!

I wonder if putting pub instead of bar would yield different results, they do have slightly different connotations.

Thank you for the well sourced response.

I use connect, and any posts from a user in a blocked instance still pops up with a message saying what instance they're on and that it's blocked, but I can click on it to reveal the comment.