Jonathan Kamens 86 47 (jik@federate.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 17:25:45 JST

@djsundog Please correct me if I'm wrong. I think the argument you're making is that true federation requires the possibility of meta-communication like complaints, so a connection that doesn't support that isn't really federation, it's something new and different.
And if it's new and different then people in the Fediverse in fact have not consented to it already, so making it opt-out is taking away their consent.
This makes a lot of sense to me. Am I hearing you correctly?