That just forces everyone who wants/needs the bigger ecosystem to leave Mastodon and join Threads. It’s daft.

The beauty of the Fediverse is that different instances can make different choices and people can choose their instance based on the choices they prefer. The Fediverse is not a monolith and demanding that it become one is just wildly missing the point.

On the site formerly (and still) known as Twitter, I missed a lot because it did not show me everything from accounts I followed.

On Mastodon, I miss a lot because I wasn’t browsing my feed at the right time.

This would matter less on Mastodon if my feed was endless and I could browse it until I’d caught up with everything new. But it is not endless, so I can’t.

I don’t see how you can have multiple instances all injecting stuff into my feed, which is what the (other) OP seems to be suggesting? I don’t want any kind of algorithm deciding what I see and definitely not some kind of hyper-competitive inter-instance competition for my attention. But I wouldn’t mind if Mastodon worked out what I hadn’t yet seen from the accounts I follow and put it into my feed while I’m actually browsing it.

Yeah, a community overrun by fash will die. Not gonna work.

OK, so defederation causes the problem. Having a unique community cannot solve that. But I’ll forgive you for posting twice, if that is the reason.

Do not post everything twice. FFS. If I’m interested in a topic I’ll subscribe to all the relevant communities for approximately zero hassle. Spamming feeds is just annoying and multiple identical threads make it impossible to follow the conversation. Quit it, please.

No it isn’t. You’ve got the whole Fediverse to choose from. That’s the whole fucking point.

If you want every single decision to go your way, run your own instance. Otherwise, quit moaning and find an instance that suits you.

Most people will not put their time and energy into running an instance which is destined to become a fascist playground with policies like those. You might not like it but in this real world that we are all forced to live in, that is what those policies lead to.