I’m with you. preemptively defederating feels like shooting ourselves in the foot. It would be great to be able to access content from larger communities on our own terms. If meta starts trying to dictate the rules, sure but as it stands now they don’t control activitypub. I think I’m also in the minority that wants to see the fediverse grow into a proper alternative to traditional social media, though.
It will be federated, but not with activitypub. It looks like they’re developing a more comprehensive system for federation