The U.S. government puts out travel advisories for countries, informing its citizens about the relative safety of those places.

For the really bad ones, there are dire warnings about how likely death is.

There are probably many places people shouldn’t visit on the fediverse, and I think what’s missing is a way of warning people that they might be stumbling into one of those places. If instances could issue “advisories” to let people know that they’re about to visit a hive of shit posters and putlerbots, and flagging accounts as belonging to such hives, it would go a long way toward solving the problem.

I say this because defederation is tantamount to a travel ban, and that’s a big step.