It is currently not federated, and I should be careful with my words because people often confuse my intent when I talk about this. Federation is planned but ActivityPub is not. More details on this are on github.

Listen, I’m going to shamelessly self promote my project all I can! Also PHP, also Symfony: Habitat is a platform for local communities. I don’t think PHP gets enough love! It’s incredibly versatile and is actually very fast in recent years.

I feel that there’s something you’ve implied in there that isn’t explicit.

For instance:

It makes high-quality posts look the same as low-quality ones.

How does it do that?

that format is not good since lots of people will start to automatically block them

Why would they do that?

You’re really going to have to dumb it down for me, and I might not be alone given the number of down votes this post, and your comments get when you mention it.

I’ve read your comments, I’ve read the post, and I honestly still don’t understand the issue.

Mate! It was you who commented something to this effect on my post a while back! I’m trying to understand what you mean, I really am, but it’s not going in. Could you humour me, and explain to me what it is about an image accompanying a text post that makes it bad? Is it that so very often when an image accompanies an article you’ve seen so many instances of it being low quality content that you’re conditioned to assume the same even when it isn’t the case?