The fediverse just needs time to grow. It’s still a very new thing. Growth will take a long time, but it needs to be an alternative to corporate social media, not integrated with malicious actors.

It will be more difficult and damaging to defederate later when Meta starts throwing its weight around, because people will become accustomed to a much larger amount of content. It’s best to never federate with them, even if that means costing growth opportunities in the short term.