This point is pointless. The question is whether federation works, or whether it instead degrades into a short list of large providers.
It's amusing that the first response to that point being made is to miss it, and to somehow paint the isolation of smaller servers as a strength of federation (because it gives users control over what they see.) Then the next one is literally an argument that decentralization will inevitably centralize, because that centralization will satisfy the communities expectations 98% of the time.
The last paragraph wanders very close to claiming that it is childish and entitled to expect your decentralization not to be centralized. Doesn't that just enthusiastically reinforce idlewords's claim?
It's amusing that the first response to that point being made is to miss it, and to somehow paint the isolation of smaller servers as a strength of federation (because it gives users control over what they see.) Then the next one is literally an argument that decentralization will inevitably centralize, because that centralization will satisfy the communities expectations 98% of the time.
The last paragraph wanders very close to claiming that it is childish and entitled to expect your decentralization not to be centralized. Doesn't that just enthusiastically reinforce idlewords's claim?