cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7193618
The “free fediverses” are regions of the fediverse that reject Meta and surveillance capitalism. This post is part of a series looking at strategies to position the free fediverses as an alternative to Threads and “Meta’s fediverses”.
Of course, admins are free to federate, defederate, and ban as they like.
I just think tying definitions like “free” to specific instances is silly. There is no inherent freedom in blocking specific instances. Different terms like “non-commercial” or “tracking-free” would be much better descriptions of these corpo-defederating instances than “the free Fediverse”.