There's some truth to the idea that it just creates lots of petty tyrants. One of the biggest issues I see is the widespread use of non user overridable server

There's some truth to the idea that it just creates lots of petty tyrants. One of the biggest issues I see is the widespread use of non user overridable server blacklists. For a technology that is supposed to be about user control, allowing the sysadmin to control who you talk to or follow seems undesirable. While I can understand not wanting, say, porn, all over your global federated feed, not letting users choose to override that for their personal feed is creating a multiple netsplits. I'm sure some will just say that since it's their server they can do what they want, but I'm talking about what is good for the system as a whole. Currently it feels like the only way to get access to the entire thing is to run your own server, which doesn't seem healthy.