Jonathan Kamens (jik@federate.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 23:01:12 JST

@grrrr_shark 🤷 There is no meaningful mechanism for someone to get the "consent" of the entire Fediverse for federating a new server. The way it works is, you federate, and then people decide to block you if they don't want you.
If he had posted "Hey, do people think I should do this?" and listened, there would have been no way to aggregate the feedback into a meaningful consensus.
Then whatever he subsequently decided to do, the people who disagreed would still be angry.