Imagine Chrome not allowing you to visit specific sites and then Firefox not allowing you to visit a different set of sites.

Imagine a worse, less fitting analogy

You can literally spin up your own instance in 20 minutes and see every instance ever if you’d like, it’s a choice and its good to have

xenophobes scared of everything and defederating everyone

Go join a monolithic network if you are not interested in the features of the fediverse.

baby its not xenophobic to defederate, calm down

Ability to choose with whom to federate with is a core concept of the Fediverse

If you don’t want any defederation, join an instance that doesn’t do it.

your OS can have whatever you want with however much bloat you want

No, it can’t, because you can’t remove the bloat, dummy, that’s the entire point of the problem. People wouldn’t care if they could just remove the bullremoved.

Yeah that sounds fishy, a default KDE installation of Fedora would at least be under a gig for me

Cause we can strip features all day long until we get there.

Good? Okay? We need more minimalism

Perpetual software bloat should not be encouraged; idling at 2GB is removeding insane