Gregory's Server@J12t
The simple answer is that it's up to individual instance operators, and from there, it's up to other instance operators to decide whether to federate with instances that host businesses.
Even further, this can be a choice of whether to support/platform businesses depending on whether they're operated ethically.
It used to be that a businesses' reputation was based on its community connections.
@tchambers
@katanova I sympathize with your answer, but I think as we all know from experience, many people here will come up with different answers. A business that runs their own instance (for example) may end up not being able to connect to anything because they didn't understand what the vocal majority wanted. It would be nice to come up with some kind of baseline so that doesn't need to happen.
@tchambers