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So what you're suggesting works in theory, but not in practice. There are times when simply ignoring bad actors or voting them down within a community is not enough to stop them from misbehaving. Try ostracizing a botnet. Or nicely asking trolls to stop posting racist memes. It won't work.
Oh no, what I'm suggesting is that we can't stop them from here. On sh.itjust.works the best we can do is self-moderate. It's not our responsibility to moderate other instances, and defederating is a bad attempt to do so. Defederating from any instance that has a racist meme is not a good way to deal with that, simply self-moderating well on sh.itjust.works is the best way.
As for botnets that's another story, spam should be against the rules regardless.
Communities within sh.itjust.works seem to be well moderated thus far, and that's great to see.
That's kind of the crux of the issue though, you keep saying "instances should self-moderate" but then you say "defederating an instance that is not properly self moderating is not a good way to deal with that". What exactly do you propose to do then if an instance is not self moderating enough?
Exactly. When TendieMaster69 says "self-moderate" I think defedding should 100% be a part of that self-moderation toolkit. That's all defedding is - an instance saying "nope, we're done with your b.s." I don't see why that should be off the table.