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I think also a certain amount of non freedom helps.

One of the big things facebook did is you couldn't customize your page. No autoplaying midis with seizure inducing gifs. Also helps with brand cohesion.

Federation gives people freedom. Quite frankly users cannot be trusted to maintain a good experience if given freedom.

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So instead of we’ve got rampant racism, conspiracy theories, fake news and attempts to sway elections in that direction all over the world. If that’s the good experience, bring back the midis!

Midi's are also easier to content block as another user.

They are unrelated. You can have bigots both with autoplaying midis and without autoplaying midis.

Most of us here presumably recall the early iterations of Twitter and Facebook. Both succumbed to dark patterns a very long time ago. Your argument seems to be a slow death is preferable to a fast one.

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