

I sort by new and a post appears, am I not allowed to comment? Why are you trying to police other users from expressing themselves on a forum? The nature of federated instances allows for cross communication between different instances, this is the point of the way it is designed. I made sure to check the rules of the instance and I’m not breaking any by politely pointing out that the OP is being disingenuous and has other solutions to control the content they see without blaming hundreds of people for one person’s actions.
If an instance collectively chooses to defederate because one user got upset for being told off after trolling, it has nothing to do with me. Until that happens, I’ll keep seeing posts from this instance on my feed and comment as I wish, thanks officer.
If it was about defederating with other people I would agree, but if it’s a bad faith criticism of the instance I am also a part of, it’s essentially about me. If someone is openly talking shit about my house from next door because they are upset about not getting their way in some petty dispute they participated poorly in with someone in my building, it feels fine to me to chime in and say what I said. Again, the rules of reddthat community support don’t say it’s just for locals (unless I missed something), and by the nature of federation it would be assumed that others can see and comment on any of these posts. If your support channel is supposed to be only for users if the instance, that could be a good change to make.