They're not though, they're making excuses to make their restrictive policies seem more reasonable. They need to be made an example of for all the other fascists looking to get into fedi or host their own sites. Make examples out of services, don't just let someone have a business or site because it's theirs.
Those people who would go back to Reddit will do that already anyway, hell they probably already have. How many dead and inactive or barely active accounts are there here? Pulling the plug on instances who act pretentious sets the example for others looking to host their own services and if the people who never were committed choose to leave let them leave. They didn't want to be here in the first place.
Admin culture is rotten to the core, and we need people to cull these rotten pretentious admins or it'll get worse.
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