Maybe it was their refusal to take a stance on Meta and Threads? The admins of .ml said it took them 2 minutes to decide to preemptively defederate. .World on the other hand came to an anti-corporate platform and publicly took a position that they would wait and see about federation with Meta.

It’s like saying “power to the people and viva revolution but we are also remaining open to licking boot depending on the circumstances.”