@choyer @fediversenews Honestly, defederation is fine, good even.
It's a vital tool in keeping communities safe and healthy; especially the most vulnerable in the communities.
If you think this feature is not really useful or harmful even, you probably aren't part of the groups this feature intends to protect.
There are enough instances that don't block anyone ever and leave it up to the user to block the people they "disagree" with.
Instances with this laissez-faire approach to moderation don't have a lot of visibility because joinmastodon.org, for example, has a server covenant that these servers aren't particularly compatible with, let's put it that way.