@chikorita157 Defederation is going to kill Mastodon. Maybe Bluesky or Threads won't gain traction, but something where a handful of admins don't utterly destroy the SOCIAL CONNECTIONS built by their users will come along and be good and this place will cruise along banning each other over increasingly narrow ideals until there is no one left.

Normal users don't want all this crap, they just want to follow friends and have everything work... :(

@Ragashingo the problem is that companies like meta know you want to keep connections, that's why they take you hostage through them. No doubt they'll start implementing proprietary extensions that other Fedi software won't be able to support and eventually just pull the plug with some dumb reasoning like ‘oh there's so much bad content on fedi that we cannot moderate so we decided to remove federation’. It happened before, it's bound to happen again.

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@brawaru @chikorita157 It's back to: "The Fediverse! We're free and open! (Except when we aren't!)

I, too suspect bad future behavior... but what if it's 10 years away?! I only really used and loved Twitter for 10 years and enjoyed the heck out of it when it was good. It became a real time backbone of the Internet (weather reports, traffic alerts, sensors of all kind) when it was good.

Preemptively defederation is a massive violation of principles! It makes me angry.