I don't disagree with that, I'm not the OP who called it fake federation. I do think that federated systems tend to become centralized, because the federating

I don't disagree with that, I'm not the OP who called it fake federation. I do think that federated systems tend to become centralized, because the federating links tend to be unreliable. I think people confuse federation and decentralization, when they're very different things.