That's a problem I see, too. A lot of things are far less decentralized/federated in practice then they claim to be. It's not uncommon that some of the points

That's a problem I see, too. A lot of things are far less decentralized/federated in practice then they claim to be. It's not uncommon that some of the points why something is federated or even decentralized are only there in hypothetical scenarios (let's say in theory) which just don't happen in practice. Not because they technically can't, but because there are no marked dynamics insensitiveing it (probably more the opposite).