@millardjk @niran @vilor we do proactively shutdown federation with a lot of the junk out there. Right now there are about 500 instances where it's just not in our collective interest to talk to.

Someone else on a different server may still be able to see that stuff, and if someone here wants to they can move their account somewhere that doesn't try to curate the experience.

@millardjk @niran @vilor if you're a logged in user and you visit https://vmst.io/about you can scroll to the bottom and it lists all the servers we block.

As you can see by a lot of the names, the reasons are sometimes obvious.

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but but but
HARDCORE FREE SPEECH
@niran
I'm sure there are instances for that kind of speech as well lol.