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 Apparently there's drama in the Fediverse over whether or not instances should federate with Threads.
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 What even is the point of building a federated platform if all of the instances end up forming their own little silos anyway? 
 What’s the big deal? Federation just means you’ll be able to follow Threads users from Mastodon and vice-versa 
 Progressive Mastodon instance users get really huffy at the prospect of giving a platform to instances that grate against their community standrds or just simply their fragile sensibilities. Remember  they are on Mastodon, because Silicon Valley isnt aligned *enough* with their deviant worldviews. 
 True unless you are on mastodon instance that has an owner and the owner doesn't like the other instance... And that's most of the instances. 
 beats the whole purpose of federation 
 They're throwing a fit because of a lack of censorship? 
 If they refederate with the weird degen side of mastodon I’m pretty sure meta will decide by themselves that they want no business with the fediverse. 
 Of course there is. 

I do quite like giving them all their own little instances that they can rule over tyrannically.