This I disagree, I believe it's useful to let trolls and spam bots talking to themselves, alerting of a ban will only make them to take measures to circumvent the block. The problem would be mod abuse, not the tool.
How does this federation thing works? I have an account here, if I want to follow a magazine on another instance can I do it? Will it show in my "front page"? Could I do it for lemmys instances and "sublemmys"?
This I disagree, I believe it's useful to let trolls and spam bots talking to themselves, alerting of a ban will only make them to take measures to circumvent the block. The problem would be mod abuse, not the tool.