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Instance blocking should replace defederation (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HerbalGamer@lemm.ee to c/chat@beehaw.org
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Think about it; instead of those in charge or the instances deciding who they don't want to be federated with and thus restricting content for the users, it would be better if users were able to block entire instances instead.

We'd be able to curate our own browsing experience so much better without admin/mod drama influencing the rest of us.

Edit: Alright so maybe not exactly replace defederation, but it should still be an option available to us, and in general should become the default action before defederation IMHO.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Defederation is your instance doing the instance blocking. Regular instance blocking is you doing it from a user level and doesn't affect other users. There's many reasons why things should fall under one or the other. If an instance does not defederate, another server's (potentially illegal) content can get cached on their servers for example, or enable a lot more spam. This also is during the recent CSAM attacks so admins are a lot more wary.