Piefed defederating from that group of “anarchistic” instances would get me to change to piefed if .world didn’t immediately follow suit.

It’s not even so much that the users on those instances are all bad, they’re not.

It’s that their admin team (it’s really one group across multiple instances) are either incapable or unwilling to keep out bad faith users.

It legitimately doesn’t matter which it is, and bad faith users would love if that’s the discussion.

When rot spreads in a connected network like this, you prune it before it can spread. Admins got rid of hexbear, and thought that was enough. Since it wasn’t, it continued to spread and now even more drastic action needs taken.

I don’t want to keep relitigating this shit, but these decisions can’t drag out, the longer this goes on the more rewarding it is for those same users to infiltrate another instance and try the same shit.

All the problematic users have alts all over, but defederating from the main instances drastically cuts off their recruitment. They’d be forced to deal with competent local admins, and every post/comment wouldn’t include an advertisement for their home instance allows that type of shit.

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Or an option for an account to choose to defederate their account from instances on a case by case bias.

A setting page with every instance federated at large, and if you uncheck a box none of your comments/posts/votes are even sent to that service.

That is what a “block” should be. Right now it’s just “ignore” which is plugging your eyes just to their community posts.

That also gives admins a reliable pulse check. If 60% of users took the time to individually defend from an instance, they should evaluate if they should be federated at all, or at least ask their users why it’s happening.