It's gonna be realllllly hard to keep people on this instance if we defederate lemmy.ml. Lots of large communities moved there because it's been treated as the de-facto instance, so we'd be walling ourselves off from tons of thriving communities that have nothing to do with those admins.

Personally, I think defederating an instance should be something done only if absolutely necessary. Is it possible to just block communities we dislike on an account level? (Genuine question, I haven't tried that yet)