You’re looking at this from the wrong point of view. The fediverse is not just lemmy: Threads, Tumblr, even BlueSky (albeit with their own protocol, but anyone could just modify their fediverse enabled app to convert their data to be applicable to BlueSky’s protocol) are quickly setting the stage for a new norm. The more websites integrate the fediverse into their stack, the more data outside the immediate sphere of influence of these major corporations can be harvested. To what ends they’ll use it, I don’t know – but I don’t trust them with it.

If the mods are true to their word they should be deleting anything related to the steam gaming platform because now its a sub about steam engines

Blocking them means I’m interacting with their posts which is exactly what I do not want to do

That means running the fediverse on non-proprietary software, not forcing the end-users to interact with conspiracy theorists