That’s exactly how it works right now with VDI. I’m using one at work.

Depends if the rate of creation of the suspicious instances is higher than the mods can manage.

Two solutions that I see:

1. Mods and/or admins need to be notified when a post has a lot of upvotes from accounts on the same instance.
2. Generalize whitelists and requests to federate from new instances.

Well the “federated” feed is similar to /r/all, that’s a useful feature imo. The local feed has no equivalent because it relies on the concept of instance.

Yeah, I’d like a statement from the admins. That would clarify their stance.