Thank you for the balanced view. I hope some day we ‘free’ people will stick together and replace that fear with trust in each other (and good moderation tools to ensure it). I’d love to hear those exact ‘fears’ and see if they’re warranted or artificial and this is just the excuse for protectionism. Because I myself am afraid that some of the free ‘alternative’ communities aren’t big and stable enough to bear additional stress and being split up in several fractions. It feels the same with the latest split and defederation happening in/on lemmy with beehaw separating from instances like lemmy.world. That caused quite some confusion with new users and trouble for everyone. I don’t think this is healthy for the platform as a whole. And splitting up any federated platform unnecessarily, will inevitably harm the platform as a whole.

This being said, tilvids must have made some exellent choices, too. They attracted quite an amount of high quality content and seem to be generally thriving. I have to give them that… :-)