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Lemmy was designed for both federation and defederation. It doesn’t make sense to blindly federate with every instance in existence, if for no other reason than some of them will be full of spam and/or illegal content.

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epl692@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Illegal and spambots are one thing… I just don’t want thought police on sdf. If your reason for defederation is “I don’t like them, we should make them go away.” Then maybe we are no better then the people who say those things about us.

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- seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think that users should be able to block instances, but being able to block communities may be good enough, at least at this stage in Lemmy’s development.
  
  Another issue with extremists is they like to orchestrate coordinated harassment campaigns against people they don’t like. If that kind of thing starts to happen (which seems likely), that would be a good reason for defederation.
  
  “I don’t like them, we should make them go away.”
  
  Everybody has the right to freedom of association. Nobody’s making a website “go away”. You’d still be free to go there and read their stuff on your own. I do think defederation should be a last resort, though.
  
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