@nova@hachyderm.io @ariadne@treehouse.systems I can only speak for myself here, of course, but my two concerns are:

1. The existence and/or normalization of corporations on the instance
2. The rather unconstructive way in which several users have been replying to my original post, making the same sort of "you must be new to how the real world works"-style patronizing comments that I would get on Twitter

If those two issues are addressed, then I would personally have no immediate reason to distrust Hachyderm. I *think*, but obviously cannot guarantee, that other fedi admins will feel similarly, and that folks would be open to reconsider defederation where it has already occurred.

The practical implementation of this would involve disallowing corporate accounts entirely, and establishing a general understanding within the Hachyderm userbase that the existing culture here exists for a reason, and that people should be respectful of that.

Of course that doesn't mean that criticism of that culture is wholly disallowed, but it should come from a place of understanding (and particularly understanding that those reasons might not apply *to them personally* but can nevertheless be valid), rather than from a place of 'defending the status quo'.

Part of that will also be recognizing that, despite the relative queerness of the Hachyderm population, it on average still has a very privileged population compared to many other instances ("well-paid folks working at big tech companies and startups", to put it bluntly), and that there is a considerable amount of people here who have not been that lucky, and who will eg. be automatically suspicious of anyone who presents their tech job as part of their identity (which I've found common on Hachyderm).

Much of this space is about self-organizing and community with a decidedly anarchist (and non-commercial) approach, and that just isn't very compatible with "well-paid tech workers who promote their employer and generally seem to support hierarchical governance models".

Particularly those in support of capitalism are generally not welcome, due to how capitalism is an active threat to many of us here.

I do think that Hachyderm can mostly coexist with other instances as long as users are aware and mindful of all this in how they interact with others outside of Hachyderm itself.

That having been said, *some* nonzero amount of instance blocks will probably be unavoidable due to fundamental incompatibilities (a risk which grows with instance size), but that's also just a part of how the fediverse works - it doesn't *need* to be one big universal platform with everybody in the same room.