Sure, but you're never going to do it better than the big guns, and most of the "consumers" of social media will probably use one of their relays instead of you

Sure, but you're never going to do it better than the big guns, and most of the "consumers" of social media will probably use one of their relays instead of yours. I think that the democratized model that ActivityPub encourages works better (even for those .1 percenters I spoke about earlier) but for sure for the average user because it more or less equalizes the playing field. More than that, nothing in the ActivityPub protocol would prevent users/clients using relays for disseminating content, "feed generators" for consuming content, distributed moderation mechanisms for moderating. The limit is only in the imagination of the developers and not in the way the protocol is structured. I will stop now, I feel pretty strongly about this problem, and I fear I'm coming out as more combative than I intend to.