New account but I've been using burner accounts and lurking since the sub got banned. I've been seeing all the standard liberal brainworms again for the first time since and everytime it's an account from another federation. I was tepidly against federation at first but this has been entertaining, like the old days of
people who wandered into the sub.
I gotta imagine this will only last another week before everyone defederates us, but let's enjoy it for now.
You need to implement the carrot and the stick. Open minded people get the carrot. Closed? They get the stick. Maybe next time they'll get the carrot, but they aren't going to change if that's all they ever get and all they ever display is being closed to what you're trying to explain to them.