Think about it; instead of those in charge or the instances deciding who they don’t want to be federated with and thus restricting content for the users, it would be better if users were able to block entire instances instead.
We’d be able to curate our own browsing experience so much better without admin/mod drama influencing the rest of us.
Edit: Alright so maybe not exactly replace defederation, but it should still be an option available to us, and in general should become the default action before defederation IMHO.
Yeah the whole instance is essentially one trans person’s safe space. Nothing wrong with that, there certainly should be such communities, but for the reasons you mentioned it is not a good instance to choose unless you are specifically looking for a heavily moderated trans community.
Trans people shouldn’t have to corral themselves away in trans-specific communities. They’re part of the wider community, just like anyone else & deserve safety within that.
It really isn’t hard for the rest of us to refuse to tolerate transphobia, whether or not there are trans people in the vicinity.
I agree of course, but in the mean time i can completely understand their desire to have a walled garden space for themselves.
Nothing in what I said has anything to do about being a trans safe space
And nothing I said has anything to do with transphobia, which is what you are trying to insinuate here i believe.
I just wanted to provide the broader context of their aggressive defederation policy.