Indeed, defederation as the instance level should really be a a last resort, especially now that we have user-level muting of instances.
I’m not into politics myself and it drives me crazy that we can’t rely on fine communities because they are on instances defederated by big instances because of their political views.
To be honest it's not always politics, Beehaw didn't defederate for political reasons but lack of moderation tools
I don’t feel like I’m being secluded, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. I have seen hate for .ml users and hexbear users, and I really don’t get it. The fediverse shouldn’t be segregating users based on what instance they’re in. That’s like saying all US citizens are awful because they live there.
Great, thanks!