I'm struggling to see the benefits of defederation. If we defederate from too many places, then users will make accounts to see what's on new platforms. If there is a better experience on the other side, then they will abandon these instances. If you can see content from the new platforms already then that is less of a reason to abandon ship.

I'm not buying the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish argument. It's more likely that we end up making ourselves irrelevant, than Meta somehow makes an open source protocol closed.

Philosophically, wasnt the idea behind an open protocol so that access remains open and is free from broad bans like this? Trying to keep people out en masse is not much different from having a Reddit-style walled garden to keep them in.

If we end up defederating from everything new and scary then why did we even leave Reddit?