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I thought it only defedded from instances that were being very explicitly racist and/or very poorly moderated. Those seemed like great decisions. What instances do you think shouldn't have been defederated?
I prefer to just block communities I don't like rather than having an instance decide for me. There were votes here so it's not like it was a sweeping decision, but I just block stuff I don't like. I'm not going to ask an instance to block NSFW content, I will do that myself, same with content that is spammy or I find detestable.
The thing is a lot of instances have multiple shitty communities.
You can block one, but then the same edgelords make a new community on their instance for the same bigotry.
Which leads users playing whack a mole.
I took a look at your instance tho, and I 100% understand why you'd be upset at this instance for defederating.
Not to mention how easy it is to just sign up for an account on whatever de-federated instance if you really want to... Liftoff by default looks to me like it makes it very easy to use multiple I stance accounts all at the same time for posting, commenting, voting, etc