Hello friends, I have been thinking about the defederation issue
I have a satirical post in mind for the subject but a different topic came to mind
what if instead of defederating, a "soft" defederation could be activated, where content basically is not served to users unless they opt in to it
So like say "shhhhhhitjust.works" instance activates "opt in soft defederation". Exploding Heads posts stops showing up on the instance, but users could still navigate to shhhhhhitjust.works/c/freeforum@exploding-heads.com and choose to subscribe and then stuff would show up
This would allow admins to be able to not promote content they agree with, while allowing users the ability to still interact with content they might approve of agreeing with
thoughts or has someone proposed this already?
we could also call for a new round of soft refederation if this idea is of use to anyone
edit: I suppose I should add I'm not really advocating for soft defederations at all so much as for them over "hard" or "full" defederations as have gone on as they drastically cut off all communication
I would really rather see users eventually get the ability to just block an entire instance if they don't like the content there, and have admins step in for actual defederation in the case of illegal / abusive content
I guess that's been raised on a github issue (see carbon's comment in this post) so it's just waiting on someone to code it I think