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The main arguments for people to defederate are

  • "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
  • A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
  • Defederating preventively costs nothing
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

PieFed.social, Mbin, or use one of Sync or Connect that can actually block tankie users - Lemmy's "block" doesn't block hardly anything at all, as you still see them, they can downvote you, generate notifications, etc. Read more here.

You may also want to block certain news and political communities in favor of better ones that are not so filled with toxicity and misinformation regardless of whether the content comes from certain instances.