@Howard Let’s ask mastodon.social and just the ten most popular servers to block your instance and see :)
(They have the power to control whether or not you reach a huge percentage of the people on the fediverse. So they’re not just moderating their own servers, they’re moderating the fediverse. The larger they or others get, the more pronounced that effect will be. It’s about power differentials.)
@aral My instance has banned mastodon.social and a couple of other large instances (with good reason), and this is exactly the result. This is going to be so much worse when Meta joins.