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@xgranade i'd like to believe it's possible, but given the unthreaded nature of chat-like interactions i don't see how. defederation on the fediverse mostly works ok because our conversations here are so heavily threaded. even then, instance owners are cautious about defederating popular instances like mastodon.social. but imagine removing all the mastodon.social-equivalent posts from an unthreaded chat stream.

@xgranade hmm. this makes me think federation beyond oath / user profiles is an anti-feature for these use cases 😬 (these use cases: closed-door and smallish open-door interest-specific communities having mostly unthreaded, chat-like conversations)

the best experiences i've had on Discord were on servers with firm moderation. reading your post, i realized moderation of a federated chat room can only be as good as the weakest popular instance. defederate that instance and you end up with malformed chat; keep them, and you have to accept their weak moderation.

i'd rather be in a room where moderators try to apply themselves more consistently, and if i don't like their room then i'd rather find a different room on a different server than end up in a space that overlaps with their mess.