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I don't see enough talk of how the fediverse is structurally resistant to external power.
here, corporations and governments don't have any central node to pressure to suppress activity that conflicts with their interests. they could at most pressure one instance at a time, but there's no way to ever get their way across the entire fediverse at once.
the importance of this feature is tremendous.
@abgd I thought that was the original idea behind federating, with all the other benefits simply bonuses to that...
@mux2000 Definitely one of the original ideas, but with all the hot takes and meta toots in the last few days I haven't seen it foregrounded very much...
