Exactly; one of the most valuable things federation brings to the table is the ability to choose which servers to federate with and which not to. I don't want Meta moderating individual users on sites they don't own.
The "moderation" line for e-mail has been drawn at spam/hacking/phishing. If the fediverse succeeds, then it will do the same. Servers that fail to police spam/hacking/phishing will be blocked, everything else will be allowed. If the lines are drawn elsewhere, each server will choose their own lines, there will be no agreement, and thus no ability to share blocklists, and the fediverse will be in name only.
There is a very good reason to see this path being taken, given what the Apple App Store disallows and new EU law with rigid speech requirements.
There is a very good reason to see this path being taken, given what the Apple App Store disallows and new EU law with rigid speech requirements.