Defederation is your instance doing the instance blocking. Regular instance blocking is you doing it from a user level and doesn't affect other users. There's many reasons why things should fall under one or the other. If an instance does not defederate, another server's (potentially illegal) content can get cached on their servers for example, or enable a lot more spam. This also is during the recent CSAM attacks so admins are a lot more wary.
this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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