I think defederating instances that post illegal content makes sense, as the admins are responsible for the content on their server.

I think defederating instances that host belligerent users and content makes sense, because it protects those that are targeted by them.

I don't think defederating instances that post content some people don't want to see makes sense, a la Lemmit. If the admins want to go that far, you might as well close off the entire fediverse and only host content at your personal approval. Dunno why you'd need a Lemmy instance for that.

IDK if this is a hot take, but personally I think the only reason to defederate should be for content policy.

Otherwise, it should be up to individual users to block communities that they don't want to see.

I dont like the idea of defederation, but I understand your justifications for these specific instances.

I find the idea of defederating lemmit.online an odd one. Is there a legal reason to do this? Or is it just because you don't want users of our instance to see reddit content? I don't quite understand the justification here. (I personally just have their communities blocked)

When all this settles down, I’m going to want to see a map of whose federated with who bc I feel like I’ve been seeing daily reports of instances being defederated. Preferably in the style of an actual world map showing instances as countries with their country size related to number of users.