You defederated. So you own or administer the instance. There is a law in your country and you deem the other instance breaks that law. Its exactly what I wrote before. For hexbear you should have a default block. Users should be able to go to the blocklist and enable it. I am assuming your comment its illegal hate speech means there is a law against it in your country for the transphobia and its your call. the nederland example its the same. if its owner sees it as a illegal in their country and thus exposes them to being arrested. You defederate. You can’t control the laws and folks have the ability to move a more permissive instance. I don’t think every instance hosts illegal content. Potentially it could but its a lot like in the us violating the constitution. If an individual who works for the government does it and the agency stops it and remediates its not an issue. But if the administration has a policy of its agencies doing it. Then its a constitutional crises. Similarly someone can post something illegal but mods remove it or such. No one should be jumping on the defederate hammer for that. But a community is not being moderated and the instance owners can either remove the posts themselves or remove the defunct community. Now an instance does not make any attempt to remove illegal content and its rampant. Then other instance owners need to protect themselves by defederating if whatever it is is illegal in their country. You can do every X, Y, Z gotcha scenario you want but it comes down to due diligence and good judgement and the law.