I feel it's hard to comment this without getting political but trust me, I am not the type to force anything on people.
Just imho all systems are flawed and a big centralized system is flawed in a catastrophic way.
At the same time I want humans to work together. That's why federation seems like the best way. Not just how the fediverse speaks between AP instances, but also how nations speak to each other in fora like the EU parliament and the UN.
Just like IRL I want us to keep our little bubbles of sub-cultures online, but to federate with other bubbles and sub-cultures.
For example I do not believe Mastodon did the right thing by implementing a hard coded ban of certain instances.
That's a discussion for another day but I've met several converted neo-nazis who might not have changed if it wasn't for activists making contact with them and not giving up. Something made impossible by a global ban. Each instance should be allowed to ban what they want.
A centralized anything suddenly means we're making big decisions centrally on who to exclude and who to include.
Just imho all systems are flawed and a big centralized system is flawed in a catastrophic way.
At the same time I want humans to work together. That's why federation seems like the best way. Not just how the fediverse speaks between AP instances, but also how nations speak to each other in fora like the EU parliament and the UN.
Just like IRL I want us to keep our little bubbles of sub-cultures online, but to federate with other bubbles and sub-cultures.
For example I do not believe Mastodon did the right thing by implementing a hard coded ban of certain instances.
That's a discussion for another day but I've met several converted neo-nazis who might not have changed if it wasn't for activists making contact with them and not giving up. Something made impossible by a global ban. Each instance should be allowed to ban what they want.
A centralized anything suddenly means we're making big decisions centrally on who to exclude and who to include.