It’s not overblown. It’s sending a message to the admins of that instance.
Blocking the community itself is the smallest Band-Aid in the world. The kinds of users who join that instance for that community aren’t going to be quarantined to just that community.
I support defederatiom personally because it sends a stronger message from the community. Blocking the community is “I don’t want to see this.” Defederating is “we don’t want to see this.”
This is why I said questionable morality of it. I have my own opinions.
Generally speaking I think people want to interact with other human beings, not bots.
Then there’s the questionable morality of it. Companies can profit off bots scraping our info.
Nah man ignoring a cancer is not going ty lead to a very good prognosis.