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Honestly, this drama every time an instance decides to defedarate needs to end. Freedom of association exists. If someone decides the don't want to be around you for whatever reason that's their right.
I just went to blahaj to check their post on this and the majority of people there seem okay with this decision, and those who aren't are free to go to a different instance.
One good thing about lemmy is that an instance defederating from yours doesn't affect you in any way. Your content isn't being taken down and can still be viewed by those who want it.
Isn't this the whole point of the fediverse? Freedom to choose by yourself what content you want instead of having a central authority decide for you and being stuck with that choice?
Yet every time something like this happens there's drama. It's absurd.
It's not so much the fact that they defederated that's noteworthy here, it's the fact that the admin chose to do so based on a misunderstanding and refusal to admit that they were wrong about something which is concerning.
If the instance just said, "we are noping out of all Porn and sexual based NSFW instances," then there would be no drama. It needed no justification or explanation beyond that.