There’s also a really big issue with federation potentially opening users up to a host of deanonymization attacks by bad instances.

I mean there literally is one. European style social democracy and democratic socialism has made way more progress towards socialist ideals than anything inherited from the Leninist tradition. It’s just that the revolutionary fan service isn’t as good so the Orthodox MLs don’t like it very much.

I made the same mistake. They are the stupid kind of leftists

And people keep saying that it doesn’t matter that the admins of the largest subs are insane people. It’s very clear that they intend to use their influence to shape the fediverse and create walled gardens around anything from political ideology to inane biases.

It’s critically important to call them out on this shit. It doesn’t do much, but it’s better than doing nothing.

How many of them are 196 shitposting?

This is false. RIF clearly gets rate limited. Occasionally it will actually load the front page but every other time it throws 429 errors