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I agree, I think we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot by immediately defederating. This is an opportunity for a lot of people to get their feet wet with the Fediverse, and potentially bring them to more open parts of the platform. I don't think a lot of people understand that Meta is free to set-up their own dystopian corpo-instance without that carrying over to affect the independent ones.
Absolute darkest timeline, they wave enough money to buy out their competitor platforms or the owner of Activitypub itself, open source is closed now, and the concept of federation becomes corporate like everything else already is and apparently always will be. Not entirely likely and not to that extent, but it's technically possible. While they aren't guaranteed to take the world's biggest shit in the pool, it would be naive to suggest they're going to play nice with everything forever, given who they are and how much control they could have if they just put enough time into strong-arming it.
You and the comment you were replying to make really solid points and I enjoyed the expanded perspective. It's these longer, actually nuanced comments that are beginning to really make me feel how ridiculously people treat the downvote button. And I think overall I've been swayed to support meta being blocked by individuals rather than defederated by whole instances. But I'm still not going to pretend this is all they're going to do if they can possibly do more. It was inevitable, but I don't have to trust facebook over it