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Because the long-term influence of such a powerful yet detrimental network like Facebook is bad, and when the negative effects for the Fediverse show up, or even later, when enough people realize it, the Fediverse will have been influenced in a way that it can't go back to a healthy state.
So who determines what's healthy, and why do you feel the need to take away the choice from others?
"healthy" here means "healthy for the Fediverse", which means "being nice to each other" and supporting diversity, both values being contrary to the Facebook network, which is predatory to other networks, as having proven in the past.
The need is to prevent the predatory network from accessing the weaker one that promotes diversity and freedom of choice.
It's that way because of moderation. Trust me when I say, there are some extremely vile servers out there that are significantly worse then anything you'll find on Facebook. Also I just read this as gatekeeping, assuming that the current users are somehow better to each other then the average person. Also the fedi is one of the least diverse communities I've ever seen.
It's not about the users, but Facebook as a company that has its own agenda against its users in order to make as much money as possible.
It's also about Facebook seeing other networks not as friendly co-spaces, but as competitors that it tries to crush.
If you talk about users though, the "worse servers than Facebook" are by far less powerful than Facebook, and they impose no danger to the Fediverse.