Remaining federated allows them to have updates on time.

I too federate with .ml, but you don't need to be to get timely updates. That would be a terrible distribution architecture.

They absolutely do. They helped advertise to get people to donate money to .ml

And I have that shithole blocked. But that’s not the point here. The point is that people are bailing on an instance that is too chickenshit to defederate from a known psyop propaganda spreading instance.