defederating instances means you limit the reach of the content of the users on your own instance. defederation cuts both ways. you should let your own users block content they don't want to see. defederation should be used only for cases of spam or things it is literally illegal for you to have on your hard drive. if you find content objectionable, let your users choose if they want to block it or not from their own eyeballs.
@sneak Defederation is socially destructive.
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The instance I'm on was defederated by lots of instances a while back. Nothing to do with me. Consequently, there were lots of people I could no longer follow, and I lost followers.
@fitheach @neglesaks @sneak Most of the time all they need is to silence instances so users can still follow specific users if they explicitly want to. I don't see why they completely suspend so much.
@sneak I agree.