I think communities/sites etc. on the fediverse should live and die by their decisions. They can make this decision if they want, time will tell if its the correct one or not. That is the nature of the fediverse!

The nature of federation is that you can make your own instance with your own rules independent of a single walled garden and still participate with the other members. Create your own index if you don't like this one.

Fedi.garden also has their own autonomy. They have the right to make whatever rules for their website they want. If you don't like how they run their list, then don't use it. Make your own. If people like yours better, they'll use it instead.

It's funny to me how many big flare-ups and popular issues have been about defederating or controlling other instances but we've not really had a single popular event where users work on anything together to benefit community.

Individuals have made tools but there's not been calls to action and mass cooperation events for anything beside silencing unpopular groups. No community design discussions devising and implementing tools or features, no group efforts to catalog or document or display useful data...

I don't know if it's just that people here haven't considered the possibility of doing something positive or that outrage about others is just so much more compelling