Thank you! I appreciate the warning. Long time no see indeed! I hope you and your family are doing well too!
I can purge a few users, but if exploding-heads is used as a platform to launch a coordinated brigade against Mander, I will block it as soon as I see an indication of this to mitigate the attack. I fear that now that have spoken about this publicly, a massive target has been drawn, and the probability of this happening soon has sharply increased.
At that point the brigadiers would have been successful, which is not something that I like, because I don't think we should hand out so easily the power to cut off connections to those who come here with the purpose of manipulating the network and creating even more polarization than we already have.
That said, removing the block at that point would require either the deployment of better moderation tools, the ability to soft-block instances and deployment of instance-blocks at the user level. I will always be open to dialogue and open to finding alternative solutions to prevent de-federation.