@happyborg@andreagrandi I would worry about a culture shift too, but I don’t think #Mastodon would be as vulnerable to this as you might think based on how it works. Here your feed isn’t filled with “trending” posts and content an algorithm selects for you the way the bird place and #threads work. That’s in my mind the biggest strength of the #fediverse platform. So the only way you’d be exposed to those cultural groups would be to follow those users/hashtags. And we have the power to block users and instances entirely on an individual basis, which gives us full control. Given this, I personally don’t see a lot of risk in federating.