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If you post on your own anything-goes instance, you will probably be defederated from your friends who are posting on normie instances. You don't have a choice but to go to a normie instance yourself and adjust your content and following to suit the instance's rules.

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If you wish to participate in society, you have to abide by the rules of the society. This is a feature, not a bug.

But it's not society setting the rules it's a small subset of earlier admins who created some of the first popular servers. They are in no way representative of society.

Nobody should be forced to publish my garbage if they don't want to. OTOH when people think their instances are moderating too heavily, they can move to mine.

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