@WomanCorn yes, absolutely! its about locus of control corresponding better to real-world conditions; you can't make people you dont like stop existing, but you CAN limit your exposure to them. booting people you dont like off your instance and managing federation is a good way of doing this IMO. do you not think so?
@WomanCorn yeah, this very much depends on:
1. the degree to which one uses local vs federated TL
2. the federation policy of the instance
both of which we've barely begun figuring out, admittedly, but i imagine that these will become more important over time as we encounter moderation incidents and preferences emerge subsequently