> Federation is, fundamentally, an anti-feature that exists solely to create liabilities for the end user as, by design, it empowers people who should not be em

> Federation is, fundamentally, an anti-feature that exists solely to create liabilities for the end user as, by design, it empowers people who should not be empowered to destroy your social graph arbitrarily. My Twitter-using friends have complained that their feeds have become a ghost town and has lost most of its utility as a social network in the past year. Part of the reason why people were so upset at Reddit is because of justified fears that it's going down the exact same path. I have seen countless people myopically and unjustly banned from most major social media sites. How are these things anything other than a destruction of a social graph? The thing is, this kind of vitriol isn't uncommon, and I've been trying to rack my brain trying to figure out what would cause such a reaction. Is it a misguided feeling of patronizing empathy for end-users? A distaste for the tech-enthusiast types that champion them? Or is it distasteful from a business POV since it is antithetical to walled gardens?