Yeah mods of an instance have the power to do so for the sake of their users (in their view at least).

Your comment also implies their actions affect all other instances just by seldomly doing this action. Which isn't the case.

We can cherry pick all day, but one cannot take the whole Fediverse down like it happened with Bluesky. Which is the topic at hand.

I don't think the instances themselves are the problem. It's rather the whole defederation mess. If this had been left in the users' own hands rather than the server operators, it wouldn't have been an issue.

After all email is very federated and it works fine. And people have no issue grokking it. The implementation matters.

Weird. Millions of people seem able to deal with it just fine.

Mastodon is basically Reddit for people who have the urge to tell you they use Arch.

this is a fediverse issue. mastodon is a client