What if you are practicing? Can you start slow on the hard bits or do you have to get it right straight away?

What is you installed a gutter? And made the down pipe go into a bucket

Not wanting to be too conspiratorial, but it isn’t necessarily people simply doing this out of the badness of their hearts. The fediverse is a disruptive platform and there are many parties with deep pockets that might happily funnel a little bit of cash to certain consultancies in certain countries to stop things and add friction to this platform before it really takes off. Nothing like a little bit of corporate sabotage!