This rings true, especially this part:

"The truly toxic idea, though, is that Mastodon instances should not only refuse to federate with Threads, but they should refuse to federate with other servers that do federate with Threads. In other words, users should be punished for decisions they have no control over and may not even be aware of, made by the administrators of servers they don’t belong to. I am dead serious when I call this toxic."

https://tracks.ranea.org/post/722507935765397504/youre-so-vain-you-probably-think-this-app-is

@tchambers @chipotle I can't see this being done by any instances except the ones that already have toxic defederation behaviors (like blocking a whole instance because one of the admins made a personal post that was lacking on some leftist purity test on a matter that had nothing to do with instance operation or moderation).

@dalias @tchambers @chipotle there are instances and there are instances. Some of them are tightly knit communities that enjoy as much right to federate and defederate whosoever they please to protect their community irrespective of third party views. Federation is a privilege, not a right. Anyone and everyone has the right to federate exactly as they please, and the use of an open standard allows those that disagree to jump ship. Please respect all decisions, even the ones you disagree with.

@jaz @tchambers @chipotle No, I'm not going to respect instance admins who rip apart people's social graphs in ways the people who signed up didn't expect. I'm going to call them assholes. If you don't like that, too bad. I don't owe respect to their authority.