my brother, the www as a whole is federated and people eat that shit up. visit foo.net and it loads fonts from google.com, embeds from twitter.com or reddit.com

my brother, the www as a whole is federated and people eat that shit up. visit foo.net and it loads fonts from google.com, embeds from twitter.com or reddit.com, images from some-other.site, and forwards a user to another-place.org when they perform an action, and all these sites will happily back-link to you. maybe hopping from one site to another really is more annoying than hopping between pages on the same site, and you install a monolithic app to avoid having to interact with more than one site. bad news for you my friend, your packets are still being sent through internet exchanges following some route based on which providers choose to federate (peer) with each other! i don't think people are necessarily annoyed by federation: they're annoyed by obstructive UX. make it so they don't notice, or that it feels natural, and they won't be annoyed.