Personally, I’m not a huge fan of instance-level defederation as a concept. I’d rather leave it up to individual users to block certain instances/users/communities if they don’t like them. Otherwise you get a situation where admins can go on a power trip of blocking instances or users that they don’t like for petty reasons or just because that instance and it’s users don’t subscribe to the group think of the day.

I really like the fediverse, but this whole “instances blocking other instances” seems like a good way to kill it quickly, or create useless echo chambers that are as bad if not worse than the centralized platforms that people are seeking to avoid.

Free speech means having to deal with some bad apples from time to time. Even if people are saying things you don’t agree with, you need to remember that that also means that you’re allowed to say things that others might not agree with without being silenced.

Same for me. The day Apollo died was the day I quit. I’m starting to warm up to Lemmy more and more over time as it scratches that same itch.