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You know that adage about how a bar turns into a Nazi bar? (Don't get hung up on the word 'Nazi'. The type of asshole is irrelevant to my point.) The decent ones are just the wedge.
The fedi-verse is big enough for me without assholes and asshole apologists.
I'm afraid assholes (of any kind of extreme) are everywhere. I block them, too. Doesn't mean I can't keep staying in that bar.
You've missed the point, I'm afraid. The bar is someone's individual feed, and the bartender is their blocklist (or their server's federation list) deciding who gets to stay and who is thrown out on their ear.
Alright, then. I don't like the idea of throwing out anyone just because they share the same instance. But it's everyone's own decision.
I don't care at all about instances, I even mostly disabled it showing. If someone sucks, bye bye. If they're decent, they're welcome. Sure, it's more work, but I hate to put people in groups.
The point of the nazi bar is that decent people do leave the nazi bar, if it allows nazis.
Assholes are everywhere, and if an instance specifically tolerates assholes that's not great either (which is why a lot of us are against instances with open signups). IMO the .ml instance specifically caters to a specific kind of asshole, while also being a default instance. My first account was on .ml, but I left when I learned more about it.
Here is some good food for thought about permissive instances: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/115499829288185416