Guided quests/goals have really become more important to me than before. I’ve played so much Minecraft that a pure everything sandbox isn’t interesting anymore for my friends and I, and it’s more important to have a goal and end point to our worlds so we don’t just slowly stop playing on the server until someone finally shuts it down.

So packs with limited mod sets, and some sort of quest book. It also helps learning new mods so much more than a wiki.

For actual content, we typically enjoy an automated/tech/magic mix, without going as far as gregtech style.

I’m with you in spirit if not numbers. My experience with hexbear users led me to blocking the whole instance, and I regularly block people I don’t even converse with based on how they treat other users or other topics. If someone has such a bad take on topic A, I don’t care about their possible opinions on topic B and C in the future.

I get the argument of echo chamber isolation, but most of the things I’m willing to block people over are also things that I won’t be changing my mind about because of a forum post.