It’s not really locked or kept from us. We can just choose it to visually declutter.

I don’t really care what instance someone is from. If I need to know, I can just tap their name.

That defederation is the nuclear option.

I used lemm.ee bc of their defederation policy. When it died, I chose mander.xyz for the same reason.

I think that it depends on how you access lemmy. Iirc, voyager and some others allow you to toggle user instances (at least for comments)

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That’s disgusting. Where would you find such torrents?