I think in a federated approach you’re always going to have disagreements among the parties that have federated. The beauty of a federated approach is that you have options. You can always just move your association to a different instance and in that way nobody ever controls the whole thing. I would also say that, for the most part, these disagreements are made out to be a much bigger deal than they really are.

I don't think if it as a fight. It's just people making choices about the content they want to see and services making choices about the content they wish to host. Which is how it was intended to work. For the most part I think it's just healthy.