Is there a federation mode (in Mastodon or another platform) that is, essentially, "this server is blocked by default, but individual users on my server can follow individual users on that server, and that content will be fetched/can be boosted, etc".

Basically "blocked by default but overridable on a case by case basis".

@shauna Furthermore, is there a user level defederation option which allows an instance to federate but block individual users when they are flagged as abusive (or potentially if they are blocked by a majority of the users on an instance)

@shauna Yes, I just learned this today! "Limit." https://code4lib.social/@dltj/110674133568597428

@coral I can't find that documented anywhere :(

@shauna @coral See here: https://www.loomio.com/p/etLGnr0z/poll-threads-net-defederation-level

@coral Aha! Found it, though not in the first place I looked: https://github.com/mastodon/documentation/blob/a61403023a83ed2d6d948238b3ef0f0a3e2e1b45/content/en/admin/moderation.md?plain=1#L56