@Mastodon
"no mobs" ... "no incentives to tear each other down" ... "Here, ... context come[s] first."

We don't have the research or theoretical modelling of how each of these work and develop (individually and together)
required to argue any of these even remotely confidently,

and in fact evidence from the past against "no mobs" in the context of Mastodon (cf. wilw). And I don't think people would argue that Usenet was lacking for "incentives to tear each other down", so I really don't think you can argue that comes from being decentralized.

And in particular, claiming that "context comes first" is something related to decentralization is WILDLY underselling all the years of very real and very nontrivial work people have been putting in /to Mastodon as a project/ to identify the places where context is insufficiently transmitted in the network "no incentives to tear each other down" and patch those over in ways that nevertheless don't sacrifice the decebtralization we so value.