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I want to curate what my followers see when they read my threads, which is not how things currently work. I can curate what I see, but I have no say over Nazis leveraging my threads as a platform. And, people with large follower counts are a very attractive target for Nazis on any platform that allows that kind of engagement farming...it's why they hate the platforms built explicitly for them: it doesn't provide a platform to spout their garbage opinions in the mentions of popular people.

The most valid argument for "keep everything the way it is and defed all the loosely moderated instances" is that the fediverse is best when it's lots of small servers, so everyone can choose their own adventure.

But, the argument that trumps that is that it is gatekeeping bullshit. It's saying the fediverse should _only_ be for nerds and should remain small. My friends on Threads don't grok instances and federation. They'll never be "here" if here is only many small focused instances.

And, it's also worth noting that defederating doesn't actually provide the "zero tolerance for Nazis" experience, anyway. Because of the way things propagate, entire conversations can happen around your posts without your instance being involved and without you ever seeing it. That's unintuitive, to put it mildly, and it's kind of an even more hostile implementation of the quote-tweet pile-on tactic used over on Twitter. The classic Polite Nazi infiltration tactic works here.