Following the announcement by beehaw admins to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, there has been many posts and messages regarding that decisions and what other instances will do.
I personally believe Lemmy/kbin can only thrive if there is a free flow of content between different instances, with instance admins taking a back seat and focusing more on the infrastructure and making sure the technical bugs are smoothened out. Community mods can moderate their communities, and users can block the communities they don’t find appealing (there’s even a toggle in settings to hide every NSFW post from your feed altogether).
We don’t want to create walled gardens, nor do we want to make Lemmy more confusing than it already is for new users. We will not be defederating from any instance if there is even one good community on it that our instance users might find useful. So far we have only blocked lemmygrad.ml, and right now we have no plans to block anyone else.
I am dismayed with how many people want to control what others can see.
I think the idea is that someone could create 100 accounts on a different instance and then start posting in !gaming@beehawagnbp@beehaw.org
You could defederate with a particular instance so they can’t post there or leave it up to the user to block each account individually.
A user could block that entire instance, but then every single user would have to do that. Most people here are still new to federation and may not even know that it can be done.
So to limit spam and keep the community tidy, so to speak, beehaw can just block the community.
Now imagine there is someone trolling and they start posting stuff you do not want to be associated with. Well then you might have a bigger problem.