As other people have said, it's kind of scary to think about getting an account somewhere and not understanding that that "place" has a specific culture or poli

As other people have said, it's kind of scary to think about getting an account somewhere and not understanding that that "place" has a specific culture or political orientation that ends up making me a bad fit for it in a way I didn't understand. And I guess imagine there are some potentially significant incentive problems about the way that instances talk about themselves and their communities. How does the federation part work in practice when people run their own instances?