Personally I specifically looked for an instance that defederates only illegal content, I can do the blocking of content I don’t care for myself. The most important thing is that I get as close to no preselected bias in my feed as possible.
From there I can block or hide whatever, I just want it to be my choice. Which is why I find all the defederation calls concerning. Use the blocking feature, defederation excludes discourse as well, and I would rather not sit in an echo chamber.
I fully agree. I’m here so that I can avoid the political echo chambers like Reddit and Facebook. It’s been bizarre seeing the calls to turn Lemmy into Facebook.
I just double checked, and Sync lets you filter instances so they don't show on your feed. You'll still see their comments, but at least they won't leak into your feed.
Also specific pages can be filtered so it's not the whole instance, or users, so they don't show up when scrolling. Still not sure if it blocks the user though, because I don't always remember who I filtered.