It may have been somewhat curt but the essence stands: if "social" networking is to have a future the controls should be in the hands of the individual contribu

It may have been somewhat curt but the essence stands: if "social" networking is to have a future the controls should be in the hands of the individual contributors, not in those of a few site owners. Even if your ideas align with current site owners this may change in the future, either because of an ownership change or because you change your mind. Even if you disagree with the people currently being censored and "de-platformed" you should realise that the same fate will await those who you agree with when the zeitgeist changes - as it has been doing forever and will keep on doing whether you like it or not. So, to the author a repeated question: will it be possible to self-host this system? Does it support federation or are there plans to do so in the near future? The time is ripe for a robust distributed discussion platform to compete with the onslaught of "alternative" centralised social networking services which each seem to have their few minutes of (in)fame but mostly end up in the same situation as the entrenched actors they were meant to replace.