Defederation is an important tool in keeping spaces free and safe for all. Instances full of nothing of value such as fascist content tend to be worthless anyway, so defederation makes sense.
The problem is who decides when an instance contains “nothing of value”? You’re leaving that up to a small handful of admins. You could also encounter a situation where multiple admins collectively decide to defederate from anyone who doesn’t subscribe to the same block list, so any instances who hold different opinions are cut off from loads of content on other instances. We run the risk of splitting the fediverse up into multiple, totally isolated chunks which I don’t think is a good thing on the whole.
I feel like you don't get the point of the Fediverse. It's about choice. That's all. Not being the next Reddit or having the most users, but about choosing what kind of instances you want to interact with. You can set up a Fediverse server on a smallest vps money can buy and very easily customize your own experience. That's the point.
The Fediverse isn't here so we can have an undifferentiated firehose of mediocre content and hate forced unto us in the name of 'free speech'.
Free speech and free association means being able to create your own spaces, not being entitled to wave your stupid opinions in everyone's face.
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Just block the user (s). I'm not in favour of defederation in general.
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