"what if the instance bigresponses.icu implements activitypub to the letter but every response sends back responses that are 100TB large, is bigresponses.icu part of the fediverse?"

"What an alien species instance alien234890f9.space federates completely with misskey server meow.social but is in a language that no human being understands or can ever figure out, given linguistic distance between human languages and this alien language? Is alien234890f9.space part of the fediverse?"

"What if a mastodon server furryneohegeliansternerists.gay federates successfully with poa.st over activitypub/websockets, but no other instance, but their users all, independently of eachother, and without any instruction from a fediblock list, block every single poast user one after eachother...is furryneohegeliansternerists.gay part of the fediverse?"

"What if a mastodon server definitelynotchildporniswear.net federates successfully with mastodon.fbi.gov over activitypub/mastodon API, and every single user just chooses to talk amongst themselves & instances operating on another network(nostr) via which definitelynotchildporniswear.net has also implemented, but to no other fediverse instances
and every single definitelynotchildporniswear.net ignores every report, response, like, reacc, RT, comment and other attempts to communicate by mastodon.fbi.gov. Is definitelynotchildporniswear.net part of the fediverse?"

"Soapbox server truthsocial.com secretly federates with @alex 's secret instance debuggingtruthsocialsecretserver.tech over a debugging interface only federation protocol that the only human being who knows about it is @alex . debuggingtruthsocialsecretserver.tech however openly federates with gleasonator.com and a couple other instances but no one's noticed yet. Is truthsocial.com part of the fediverse?

@jeffcliffMister Jeffrey Cliff, what in the Hell is this thread?