I thought it’d be nice for the rest of the world to have a de-america’d instance where there’s no discussion of america, certainly no american politics, and no americans are allowed via IP block.
But I think to do that effectively, you’d probably have to defederate from most of the rest of lemmy, and then you’ve lost most of the federation benefits of being a lemmy instance. However I’m only vaguely familiar with how all of the connections work so maybe someone can correct me.
I dunno. I think there’s a prevailing attitude that you should only use moderation tools as punishment for bad behavior, but it’s also fine to use them as a curation tool. But you have to understand that it cuts both ways — if you block someone, you can’t influence their opinions anymore because they will never hear from you either.