I don’t mind filtering out things I don’t like, if it’s a me-problem. If I find my feed has too many “lOoK aT mY nEw BoOmStIcK” posts from gun-toting idiots, I’ll block them. I may find gun ownership unnecessary in a civilised society and the cult around it stupid, but 'murica is arguably father from civilisation than I’m used to and they’re well within their rights. So that’s on me.

Nazis, however, I consider a we-problem. It’s our collective duty as society to make it clear to those dimwits, that there is no room in civilisation for their backward mindset and they can either adapt or get lost. If they can’t play by society’s rules then they can’t play at all.

So instances that are “just a little” or “not excessively” racist/fascist/intolerant should be defederated just like the all-out ones.

While I disagree with your opinion on admins, I appreciate the sentiment. But if you want to be on an instance that isn’t defederated or view any content, run you own instance.

That said, the ability for users to moderate the content they see on their own profile could definitely use more flexibility. The ability to block communities as a user is good, but they should absolutely also be able to block instances on their own. Beyond that, the ability to filter out content based on keywords (title, content, urls) would also be a nice addition.

Coming from RiF on Android, the app had filtering and let me say, being able to block Elon, Kanye, Meta, TikTok, a bunch of shit spewing fascists, etc made my Reddit viewing experience much better. This was, of course, after already leaving all of the default subs and finding niche communities but for some reason people had a hard-on for those topics and I could literally not care any less about them.