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Pardon my ignorance of how federation works, but would it be possible to have federating/defederating at a more granular level, like at the user or comm level? Like if in individual user wanted to block a whole instance instead of instances blocking each other, or if instances wanted to prevent certain comms from showing up and not others for a specific instance?
That's the way we'd prefer it, and it's already working in lemmy. But unfortunately that wasn't added until after full instance blocking, so most instances kept their blocklists.
We have instance community blocks working rn, and instance user blocks will be in the next release.
Of course I do think instances should fully block some servers, like the ultra right kiwi-farms and stormfront type ones... but unfortunately those communities set up on the big instances now anyway.
That’s really great to hear and it seems like it will be a very positive change. Thanks for the response!