@Weeble It's not an issue, there's not really a solution, it's an opinion and a rant.

> Cuz what you'd rather basically talk to a wall? Stumble into a conversation that u were lucky to catch cuz a mutual replied to it?

I like seeing what someone is replying to easily. I don't want to go to the other person's instance to see a reply. I enable replies in my main timeline because I enjoy seeing what people talk about or if something catches my eye, perhaps even reply guying occasionally

> Yeah you can screenshot posts but that's even gayer than sending a reply you know OP won't hear

Of course it's gayer but there's hypocrisy in the fact that you guys make fun of FediTips and sometimes even screenshot their posts. Screenshotting is what people do, imagine if FediTips made their own instance and just blocked everyone, you'd still make fun of them by directly going to the instance. Don't act like you're innocent over it.

> Defederation itself is censorship so the better question would be why we have it in the first place.

It's censorship from instance A's side, they want to censor specific pieces of information, just like how I want to censor the freakish pedophile instances. I'm not going to punish those freaks even if I really wanted to but I _definitely_ do not want to see their existence nor let my own users see them because I 100% know they don't like those people, or even have to think about them. (also legal stuff is why i block them too). Censorship is completely shutting down a voice from everyone else. It's only one sided though, anyone can "archive" or "screenshot" stuff to counter censorship

> Personally I see the point of fedi as a place to control your presence and curate content, and not have your data and timeline be handled by AI algorithms.

Fedi is just specs and shit, it's federation and nothing else. You're thinking of Neo-social media or whatever it is. Anyone can write Federation software that has AI algorithms. I personally wouldn't even mind if someone wrote a server that gave me an option to "view old/trending posts". You know how people necroboost and stuff? That kind of stuff, it's not necessary a bad thing