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@aurynn Straight up? No.

This is literally admins choosing to end relationships for their users, often with no accountability. If there's actual accountability? then maybe. But there so rarely is.

But not all defederations are the same.

nazis? Bye.
fascists? Bye.
trolling instances? Bye.
mastodon.social? DEAL WITH THE POWER RELATION AND HAVE THE HARD CONVERSATIONS PLEASE. Taking it as defed-or-not is not actually a great starting point for those conversations.
instance whose admin was on vacation for a day and didn't respond fast enough to banning one user who is kinda questionably nasty? Nah. Limit, have conversations, try to build a consensus.

Having to migrate to another server because of spats between admins about people you don't know? That is in fact harmful.

These are our social relationships involved. Damage to them requires accountability for the harm caused.