>* Choosing not to federate, just like choosing to federate, is a feature, not a bug;

i never disagreed with that part just the part where you thought that means that instances that don't federate actually do federate.

> * You no longer lose your followers during account migration on Mastodon;

always nice to meet with a fan

>* If my instance does not federate with e.g. Gab, it does not mean that my instance is an insular community disconnected from others;

Of course not, that comes from all the other instances its also not federating with.

>* I'm not complaining about Fediverse instances being insular communities and in fact I don't experience them being that way;

then this is all just a big misunderstanding and your original post was completely irrelevant to the thread

> You're getting multiple posts in a row flagged off HN and there's likely a common reason for that.

Gee whiz not the internet forum moderators! what ever shall i do? please don't take away my upvotes!