Eh, like in the previous hread about defederating from Burggit I'm against defederating in general. Heck I picked this instance in particular because it wasn't blocking anyone and wasn't blocked by anyone, so it gave me the most flexibility in what I could see.

I'd change my position if and when Meta makes any proprietary changes to the protocol or seemingly intentional "misimplementations" of it that impact interoperability.

So, Lemmy isn't a single monolithic thing like say Twitter or Facebook. Lemmy is more like the old usenet or like email where you have a bunch of individual servers each with their own users and communities, they just talk to each other seamlessly allowing any user on a given Lemmy server to participate in any community on any Lemmy server. This is what they mean by "federation", it's the mechanism by which this kind of decentralized system functions.

Defederating is essentially when a server blocks another server from being federated with it - if VLemmy defederates from Burggit (which is what was proposed) then VLemmy users will not be able to see or participate in any community or with any user on Burggit and Burggit users will not be able to see or participate in any community or with any user on VLemmy.

Blocking/filtering is just marking the communities in question as "I don't want to see this" and not having to see it ever again, or doing likewise but from the main new/all/hot feeds. The idea I support is letting the server admin for each server set a default list of blocked communities that can be overridden by each user if desired. Keeps the benefits of federation while giving users the most power to tailor their experience and also allowing server admins to curate the default experience

when you join VLemmy it presents you with content from all of the communities we federate with, including the loli/shota

What I'd wish for as a feature is for the instance to be able to set a default blocklist of "objectionable" communities and allow users to override it if desired on an individual basis. Have the best of all worlds that way, and it feels like something that's going to end up being a feature eventually anyways.