One more reason to break federation.

The federation was always meant to build communities around shared interests and values.

If I wanted the twitter "experience" I would just use twitter.

If I wanted a "free for all" environment I would be on 4chan.

Has that happened?

I was trying to understand how it work in practice. It would be relevant to picking which instance to use.

Constantly, it's great. There's big air-gaps between the US Lefty and US Righty fediverses. If you want to talk to both sides of that divide then you'll want to have accounts on multiple servers. If you decide to only be on one side then it's easy to migrate your accounts around between servers.

If I host my own instance, can I federate with both 'halves'?

Or will associating with one likely get my instance blocked from federating with the other?

At least in the past I know that would get you blocked as it acted as a bridge to allow tweets from the blocked instance to get through.

> Has that happened?

Yes. Some are over things that should be relatively uncontroversial, like loli-hosting instances. Others are more likely to garner upset on HN.