Reposting this from Threads, as people there were asking why some mastodon admins were defederating, and many there found it inexplicable, or even petulant: The fediverse (and all open systems) are about giving people choices, and giving communities power. Being able to block Facebook/Meta from connecting is a *demonstration* of that power …
@anildash
> giving people choices, and giving communities power
I think a lot of people have forgotten what this can look like, outside carefully managed "deckchairs on the Titanic" ones.