I agree with you. Also I want to say that it’s not just hexbear, I have seen groups of users demand defederation from other instances (not just on lemm.ee) because they don’t like seeing NSFW and politics (and other topics I’m sure). If we resort to defederation for any conflict then why are we even here trying to grow Lemmy, it’s clear that it wouldn’t go anywhere and we should just pack up and go back to Reddit and beg u/spez for forgiveness.

Federation is the main point of these platforms, otherwise they are just a bunch of obscure forums walled out from each other, none having enough resources nor userbase to grow into anything meaningful, and quickly being abandoned.

Can’t wait until users are able to block instances so this becomes a non-issue. Probably a compromise could be defederating until the feature is ready, not sure if that’s possible, and on the event Hexbear admins/mods not do enough to moderate.