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They are curating their instance in a particular way which is the very thing that the fediverse and lemmy allows for. Some people are butthurt that they aren't included.
The slightly more detailed explanation is that there has been a big increase in bots and trolls and due to a lack of moderation tools they opted for defederating with instances that conflicted with their goal. That goal seems to be an easy going and tolerant community. By nature this goal means that it will be a smaller community and for some reason that has angered people.
Seems to me like they're not really fit for the fediverse if they are just gonna defederate everyone, but whatever, they have every right to do it
The ability to defederate anyone is literally what defines federation. There is no "the fediverse" unilaterally, that's the entire point.
Yes, but at some point you gotta ask the question why even be in the fediverse if you're so picky about who you wanna federate with. I personally would want my instance to federate with everyone, I can pick what I want to see myself. But as I said, their decision.
Everyone is just by default assuming they want to be part of the fediverse, rather than they saw Lemmy as the most viable piece of software to realize the type of platform/community they're want to create. They've made clear from the start that they want a more heavily moderated and curated community, and that is by definition going to be mean excluding people and instances that go against that.