Huffman has said, “We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit’s content] away for free.” That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit’s content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of volunteer moderators.
touché
I mean, if you defederate from everyone else, your instance isn’t a participant in the “fediverse”. Your communities become kind of irrelevant. I did the same thing. It’s not retaliatory, it’s logging off of MySpace because none of my people are there anymore.