Today's terrible take about instance federation: "Fediverse should transition to a whitelist-based federation approach". Great, so admins should be in charge of who the hell I'm allowed to interact with - and even if I were to spin up my own instance I'd still have to convince other admins to let me federate with them.

Sorry, but this is where I draw the line: I'm too old for "IRC channel wars 2.0", I had enough with them in 2012, I'm sure as hell not going to deal with them in 2023.

Consider this account effectively frozen until things improve in the Fediverse at large, but I really don't think they will.