winter@wintervoid01@mastodon.social
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services the only reason use the official instance is because I didn't understand how the platform worked and I was worried that it wouldn't be active on other instances but now seeing how many other instances and even personal instances show up on my feed i might do that I just don't feel like dealing with moderating myself is there a easy way to defederate with the not good instances automatically
Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@wintervoid01@mastodon.social
Totally get that, and the official Mastodon app implies this by pushing mastodon.social on its front page too (which they shouldn't do).
You don't need to moderate if you're on another server. Other servers work exactly like mastodon.social, they have their own moderators. There's nothing special about mastodon.social except that it's way too overcrowded.
Admins on servers can easily defederate bad instances by using ready-made blocklists: https://fedi.tips/importing-ready-made-server-blocklists-on-mastodon/