When they mess up (which happens a lot), why does he always go down the “you’ve hurt my feelings, we are only human route” ? That’s why they never learn from their mistakes and carry on acting like fools.

I can’t be bothered watching most of their videos anymore because they are so superficial, it’s clear he’s done no or little research and (if it’s on a topic I’ve got some interest in) I can see it’s really innacurate.

But what happens if the instance you are on is defederated through no fault of your own. As has already happened, even not through the fault of the instance admin but another instance making a mistake and adding it to a block list.

There isn’t an easy way to migrate everything to a new instance. And the migration options we do have a a bit buggy.

Perhaps people have seen the survey of ex-mastodon users? It really brings out that federation is simultaneously an advantage and a problem.

At the moment, it looks like the only solution is to have multiple accounts and when you do it’s starkly evident that there’s content that you miss because of federation issues

But what happens (as did recently) when instances change direction? What happens (as did last year) where one instance admin had the wrong contact details for another so a message didn’t get through and ended up with an instance blocked and defederated for no good reason. What happens when an admin has an episode and gets in an argument that results in tit for tat blocks.

How can any new user know this might happen? How can they know what they are signing up for when descriptions are so brief?

Defederation is a good thing but unfortunately the people are human and fallible.