> Does the federated model deal with that? I understood that the owner of an instance can moderate any posts that come from that instance, whereas the only mode

> Does the federated model deal with that? I understood that the owner of an instance can moderate any posts that come from that instance, whereas the only moderation you can do of external instances is to ignore the whole thing. Mastodon has a lot of tools for muting and ignoring, both at the account and at the instance level. Here are the admin-level tools: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/moderation/ https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/moderation/ Right now, it looks like admins can "suspend" or "silence" external instances as a whole, but not individual users. "Silence" is interesting, because it's essentially a "soft ban": Users from that server will only appear to local users who follow them, if understand correctly. It's essentially, "Mostly we don't want to hear from @wretchedhiveofscumandvillany.example.com, but some of our users want to follow specific people from there, and that's cool." > Alternatively, they would only want to have two-way federation with trusted third parties, who they could trust to moderate extensively. This is already true to a certain extent. It appears that instances that won't moderate especially abusive users may gradually be defederated from other servers (or at least silenced). And of course, individual users can also ignore entire instances.