As someone who lives in México City... I hate each and every store that sets their tables and chairs on the sidewalk since we have a constant flow of cars and they take away the only safe-ish path for the rest of us.

I'm still alive so... Not fast enough

La cosa de que sean corporativas y privatizadas es lo de menos, porque a fin de cuentas quienes pudieran aunque sea frenarlos un poco se las dan de tolerantes y ya con eso permiten toda la maquinaria de desinformación, mentiras y ataques... O dicen que el número de usuarios los supera, pero no hacen nada para incrementar sus números o limitar las interacciones problemáticas.
Así me imagino que sería una instancia/comunidad mexicana, solamente hace falta voltear a ver las de mastodon en México, como que todo mundo evita hablar de política por miedo a la moderación.

Sadly that is not enough, blocking instances at user level leaves you forced to deal with their users who will spread propaganda in every comment.
Defederate? My instance already defederated those 3 but their posts still appear if someone from a sever that aligns with them (I can't see any other reason to keep a federation with them) crossposts to their instance, now that post will federate with the rest anyway. Defederation should be total, but they left loopholes by design.
And it still won't matter because not all countries have a no-bullshit instance/comm, so it's extremely easy to see someone post propaganda about a country without enough users on the fediverse and nobody will know, but if someone from that country challenges it, the users will pile on them (specially if it's a populist) and downvote them (I can safely say that the only news I've seen about my country are goverment propaganda, but lemmy users get MAD if it's pointed out).

Lemmy as it exists right now must dissapear, it's designed maliciously to keep the propaganda going instead of fighting it, it's just the other extreme of Reddit.
I am waiting for PieFed to get more developed to see if it gets better blocking capabilities, because I'm tired of the lemmy loopholes.

Se quejan de reddit pero nos hacen exactamente lo mismo a los mexicanos aquí.
Por lo menos en reddit existe r/Polaca como contrapeso a la propaganda de r/mexico y r/memexico, y los faltos de wevos de r/cdmx y r/lacamiseta, pero aquí no hay manera de aclarar las cosas.
La verdad ya estoy a nada de mejor salirme del fediverso porque prefieren callar voces que ir en contra de las mentiras gubernamentales.

Worst part is people seem to believe they have to uninstall to use the alternative, by all means have both installed and slowly make the switch, your phone won't explode if you do that. I know I have to keep WhatsApp installed because some business only use that to take orders, but I can keep contacts somewhere else too.

Speaking from a third-world country, there are 2 main weaknesses the fediverse has for us:

• selfhosting is not easy or cheap for us, so we can only use what it's already there... And it's basically all in english, so most people are out.
• meta has everyone grabbed by the balls and people are happy like that (for some reason), anything new or different is met with endless excuses.

There used to be a mexican instance called Mujico, but they were forced to use a whitelist by constant troll attacks... But they also federated with grad so I can't feel bad about it. I don't know if it still exists but the last time I checked it had zero activity.