What do you mean federating with instances that bring endless trolls, fights, spam, fascist and racist material? As I responded on a different reply I gave a brief recount of my wandering onto a hexbear post not knowing they were tankies and getting mobbed by like 100 replies, then having some follow me onto other threads for a few weeks. I got suspicious and caught a couple of them and called them on it and they stopped.

My crime, and I thought they were just super politically correct at first incensing me to argue back even more, was saying they are trying to turn us into an eastern style government, where we aren’t allowed to disagree with leaders or policies. Did not understand the vitriol. Really dumb trolling too, lots of moving pictures, gifs, I fucking hate those things. God rot gif givers, with exceptions.

But just being federated with them, their users come onto your threads and talk trash? But if not federated they can’t come onto your threads? What if my instance is federated with them, and your isn’t, and we are all on the same thread on an instance we all are federated on, can they only see my replies and not yours?

idk all the ins and outs. Less censorship is better in my opinion and other options short of blocking whole swaths of users could be employed but yes at a point you have to block them, can’t have nazis, or agent provocateurs could even be used to say illegal things and then try to get the authorities on that instance for not having it removed in time kind of thing. There is a line where you have to censor. I think that line should at least be under clear rules enforced faithfully, and the best way to enforce them faithfully would be for major decisions to be decided by a jury of users. Including decisions to permaban users, especially that.