"You can, of course, run your own server. Just like you can run your own email server. And you will be blocked from the broader public discorse just the same. T

"You can, of course, run your own server. Just like you can run your own email server. And you will be blocked from the broader public discorse just the same. There will be no way for large instances to trust and allow every individual instance. The moderation work will be too much and they’ll end up trusting only large, established instances." I don't think this is happening. Instances are only banned after they attract negative attention, not whitelisted, which would be antithetical to the idea of federation.