There is no granular federation options. Only domain blocks and that’s it.

As it should be. The whole point is this is all supposed to mesh together seamlessly, and there needs to be a standard for what federating actually means.

This isn’t a lack of moderation tools. You have the moderation tools. You can moderate by defederating.

What you want are curation tools, and that’s against the spirit of this. It’s not supposed to matter what instance you’re on, you’re supposed to see the same fediverse except for the case of defederation which should only be for extreme cases or hostile instances. This push for the ability to curate granularly is worrying, because it just comes off like admins not being willing to commit to the idea of this platform, but still wanting all the benefits of having other instance’s content.

Domain blocks are always publicly visible.

Mod logs are always publicly visible in the public) mod log.

Good. Users should know what the admin and mods are doing so they can make an informed choice about whether or not they want to remain on that instance.

We should not be encouraging shadow moderation and invisible curation like this. This should be a place that works on transparency.