As an afterthought, perhaps if they want to stop being defederated by instances they should have a good long think about how they interact with other communities. Shitposting can be fun but it's stupid and rude when you're entering someone else's space.

There was a huge difference in the tone of conversation before and after dave's temporary defederating, both on the topic of defederating, and the discussion that kicked all this off.

Now there's only two people calling me racist.