So what exactly is your point here?
It looked like you weren’t getting the point of what they were saying and was offering another way of saying it. Since your reply is clear that you disagree that context matters, you got the point but disagree.
You should judge people by what they say without an assumption of ‘what they really mean’ unless there is more context from them, because they might be oblivious of some other context as well.
Not everyone can keep up with all the dumb shit that transphobes use to imply trans women are not women.
“Separate conversations are splintering discourse, we should all just shout over each other in one massive wall of text!”
The separate communities across instances is a benefit of federation just like separate posts are a benefit over a single thread for everythjngs. Yes, features that allow them to be combined for those that want that way of interacting is great, but we don’t need a single news community between all instances when there are can be massive differences between instances.