I dont like tankies or tories any more than the next person, but breaking federation is just wrong.
I dont want to have to make a separate account just to get around that, mainly because this is actually already my account for getting around that!
Its quite easy to block a community at user level, if needed, and we are not the target of any spam, but now we users have lost the option of the ability to interact forever with a corner of the threadiverse, which i think is not cool.
If its just me thinking this way, fine, i’ll just maintain several accounts, but i would hope its not, because its feeling like instances are gettinh pretty triggerhappy with the block button https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances/tree/main
Federation doesn’t imply that everything is open to everything. It can’t do, there are too many people that just can’t be civilised to each other.
If federation is to work and build enjoyable and productive discussions, then people’s behaviour cannot be completely free. And the work to notice and block individuals will largely be done on an instance level. You can’t have every instances maintaining a blocklist of every undesirable account across the entire ‘fediverse’
If instances are not able to keep on top of bad users then unfederating those instances is the built-in check. Hopefully that will not be required too often.
There are plenty of instances whose entire purpose is to facilitate discussion that is fundamentally distasteful. They are free to do so, but we should feel no obligation to allow that to happen through our site.
I’ve no problem with maintaining a minimal blocklist in as far as we are a small site and are less likely to face problems, but we should be prepared to block where not doing so makes the experience worse.