There's a lot of things about the tech we're using here, that work very differently from other types of social media, and most of you out here are not aware of them at all. One of those issues is that even if your server defederates from the Meta servers, that doesn't mean your follower's servers will. You may have noticed, I have a lot of followers, and many of them come from mainline techbro-run instances that are actively *seeking* relationships with Meta - likely for financial reasons.