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This has not happened in my experience, the standard for blocking entire instances is always much higher. Sure you have a few minor exceptions like Beehaw, but Beehaw is just a single instance. In practice it's usually multiple comments, over a sustained period of time. Blocking an instance is not trivial.
Then leave or start your own server.
Lemmy has one at the community-level and at the admin level. Instance banning is a moderation tool and it is incredibly useful to use as I laid out before.
This has not been my experience from having been in this space for months and moderating a large server. I do what keeps my users safe, not what is convenient for me. Sometimes those overlap, sometimes they don't. I block instances because it prevents my users from receiving harassment from Nazis, instead of me cleaning it up after the fact.
Also you can just start your own server. Lemmy is cheap.
Then leave. This has not been my experience moderating a large server. I listen to my users. And the vast, vast majority of my users want Nazis banned. So I ban them. If you are in the very small minority that wants to interact with Nazis, then you can leave and go join one of the many Nazi servers out there. They would love to have you.
Not really.
Ok.
Ok. Then start your own server. The great thing about the Fediverse is you are more than free to do that.
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Then leave and go join a Nazi server. You sound like you would fit in great over there.
Then start a competitor that fixes it, or start a server that doesn't use these systems.
Then go join a Nazi server or start your own. Nobody's forcing you to stay here.