I joined the fediverse for the fediverse experience. That is it’s touted interconnections and interoperability with other services and platforms so that I could discover and dialogue with people of similar interests who weren’t directly subscribed to the same service/instance/platform I was currently using.

I originally subscribed to beehaw.org which soon afterwards began defederating from other instances. I soon deleted my account with them as that was antithetical to the reason I signed up with them in the first place. I wanted exposure and access to all that the fediverse offered.

I have no problem with people and communities creating spaces for themselves while excluding those who don’t hold similar interests, but in light of all the current squabbling, I just want to join a fediverse instance that isn’t going to defederate.

I could be wrong here (so forgive me), but wasn’t one of the reasons that people flocked to this instance and others was because they didn’t want some ‘overseer’ to make judgments on their behalf? Did they not come here for the freedom to choose what was important and meaningful to them and disregard that which wasn’t?

I realize that there are growing pains going on here - that these instances which have been fairly unknown and relatively steady in their user base have now exploded in popularity and have caused many an issue upon communities and admins that were not prepared for such an explosive influx of users.

If we all really want to come together as a community, I believe it is important to understand all of the dynamics that are currently evolving and allow some time for all of this tumult (and influx of users) to settle down before demanding certain actions to be taken.

This was my gut reaction too, but at the same time, I believe the consumers hold some sway. The Reddit Exodus being an example of this.

Governments might be able to keep a company from failing, but if consumers abandon said companies, who will those companies continue to control?