Did the admins poll the community about it? Why was such measure so needed? If the tankie content is so annoying why not let users decide what they want to see or not and what they want to block?
I don't like that the admins want to censor the content I can view or not. You guys are not protecting us nor doing us a favor, you're imposing your views over everyone else by limiting the information we are able to receive.
I don't support the devs views or the views in lemmygrad, but this is a dangerous precedent.
I've read several of the "arguments" for blocking the instance and all I can see is a bunch of people talking about politics and arguing about "floods in the frontpage". Well, let the user block communities if that's the case, same way I'm already blocking communities I'm not interested.
I think the admins want to feel like Facebook moderation. I'd be OK with it if any instance repeatedly generated spam, security, doxxing or any other concern that couldn't be solved by banning individuals, otherwise it's just plain censorship.
I just don't want the admins to use their power to decide what I can see or not. If this is going to be like this, I'll leave for a better instance because I can see where this is going to.
"Maybe you can create a post on that instance to see what that's all about and report back?"
For anyone up to the task in terms of moderation, this is an interesting community idea. c/dispatchesfromafar or something, like a best of from defederated instances so long as they don't violate the rules of c/DFA's hosting instance . Don't know about desktop, but on jerboa at least any links to other instances seem to open up the instance in my browser. The fact that it's defederated isn't a huge barrier to sharing specific posts (just having them in your feed and replying as a sh.it.head*)
Not a community that should be taken lightly re: moderation though, there's a line that needs to be skated for sure.
*I'm going to keep using this term until it sticks, god damn it.