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Sorry for the delayed response, my phone app has been being weird.
I'm sure there will be influencers. But at a certain point it becomes the user's responsibility for who they follow. We are not subject to their algorithm over here, so it's not like their content will be shoved in our face without our express approval.
I don't think we should defederate simply to protect users from themselves, we should do it when a server poses some kind of actual threat, which usually comes down to moderation in most cases. So long as they sufficiently moderate, which remains to be seen and I certainly don't blindly trust them to do that, I can't think of any real harm from federating.
This is not about protecting users from themselves. This is about protecting the wider Fediverse from corporate takeover. If you wait for them to become entrenched and start causing problems, it is too late IMHO.