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If an instance is not willing to work on these issues, other instances can opt to defederate the offending instance.
Federation is like email. Maybe you signed up for email at gmail, and that’s the server your account lives on, but you can still email people with @yahoo or @hotmail accounts, even though their accounts are on different servers.
It’s like Reddit and email had a baby.