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When it comes to instances that are unmoderated and full of spam or oriented towards questionable porn, it's a better idea to defederate. Lemmy admins could face legal jeopardy for CSAM, spam bullshit can be a security risk. No reason at all to help host or spread that. As far as trolls/politics, I think it's reasonable for instance admins to decide whether they want to amplify and serve people say, some hateful content about hating minorities or accusing people of being "groomers" or whatever bullshit. If I ran an instance I'd have those people off my site pretty quickly. As far as instances that are just sort of provocative or have questionable political views, sure. Instance blocking (which is in the works, I believe) would take some pressure off the admins to defederate entirely.