Most Fediverse actors aren’t thinking in systemic terms, many default to #FOSS tropes without the deeper politics.

Without governance tools that fit the culture, fragmentation will increase.

Most newcomers have no idea where the #openweb came from, this feeds co-option by NGOs, corporations, and naïve coders.

Rebooting requires trust, and that means small, persistent human-scale federations.

Both right and left act as gatekeepers. In horizontal spaces, this becomes soft censorship.