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The issue with purging them is it can devolve into whack a mole if more problem communities pop up (and they likely will considering the current communities are not being handled by the admins when things like drawings of people hanging themselves are posted) (Could also be whack a mole with instances but a community on an instance with 10 members can do a lot less than a community on an instance with 7k members)
The solution would be limiting the exploding heads instance so that posts don't show up but would still allow users there to participate in coding chats. Unfortunately though that functionality is not currently built into lemmy (and can't be coded into this instance for awhile) so the next best option is just defederating and users there having two accounts which would be the case on any other site
If we get more things coded into the site we can revisit what we decide later since we would have more options to manage it
I would like if you just purge those communities or let users block them. The same way we are technically federated with lemmygrad but if you go to the "All" tab you won't see many posts from them.
As you've said a community with 10 members would do much less damage than a community with 7k members, we are an instance with less than 20 active users. We aren't doing too much damage and the "damage" we are doing could be mitigated pretty easy without defederation.