Step right up and place your bets now, folks! What will be the tipping point for massive defederation? Will it be:
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Snobby, vocal elitism from instance admins,
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Retaliatory sanctions for anticompetitive actions, or
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insufficient moderation of harmful or adult content?
I’m putting $20 on the third one, rampant porn bots will be the tipping point.
There’s also a limited federation mode that server admins can use. Users and posts are still searchable, but they do not show on the public federated feed.
Useful for this exact case where a server may have beneficial accounts, but the rest should be hidden for moderation reasons.
Still would prefer it being on a proper mastodon server, but I can live with this. Whatever server ends up hosting a President’s account now has to deal with record preservation laws for their posts. Let’s leave that bureaucratic stuff to threads.