personally, i chose lemm.ee for, amongst other reasons, the federation policy. at the time i joined, l.e had blocked the fewest instances that i could find, i think it was only burggit.moe. i would choose to continue in this vein. i’m a big boy, and i can curate my own online experience - i’d rather do that than have someone do it for me

i have never had any problems with hexbear users (in fact, the few i’ve seen seem to be perfectly nice). i think if you browse subscribed: just don’t subscribe to hexbear communities; and if you browse all: you have to be prepared to block some users/communities.

this is assuming this is possible: i think it would be considerably preferable for lemm.ee to block individual users and communities, rather than defederating a whole instance

i think if people want an instance that blocks instances they don’t like, they should make they’re own rather than pestering you about it. i personally would rather lemm.ee blocked every mastodon instance so i wouldn’t get the twitter experience in my link aggregator, but i’m not going to request it because that would be selfish

slight tangent:

> Coming back to the events of the past few days: soon after my removal of the comment containing the symbol from the meta thread, two posts popped up on hexbear. One was focused on insulting and spreading lies about me personally. Another was focused on diminishing the horrors of the soviet occupation in my country. In the comments under both of these posts (and in a few other threads on hexbear), I noticed some seriously disturbing bigotry against my people. There were comments which reflected the anti-Estonian propaganda of the current Russian state, things like: i can understand your problems with this. and though i would be disappointed; as you’re a volunteer, i would understand if you defederated on personal grounds