I think it has become more than apparent that our federation with Hexbear has degraded the quality of browsing on this instance. I'm generally for open federation, but the amount of brigading and general toxicity is not conducive to the friendly communications that make Lemmy great.
I'm for defederation at least until instance blocking is available. I've already blocked most of their communities from my feed, but comments have been really unpleasant since they federated.
It's not really about the ideology as much as not wanting to have to scroll past endless political bickering. Rage addiction is real and contagious.