This isn't using technology (technology happens to be involved). This is a political challenge to Big Cloud (and it's systems being steered around by the many p

This isn't using technology (technology happens to be involved). This is a political challenge to Big Cloud (and it's systems being steered around by the many powers that be of the word). Federation is politics. Federation is about governance. It's about a place between centralized/authoritarian and distributed/anarchy. > If those in power decide to push forward by increasing the penalties, eventually running a Mastodon server will become as risky as getting caught for murder.* It's unlikely to be enforced globally. Every millimeter wrong that statement is, ever chance higher that connecting-with-one-another does try to get shut down on a broadscale, is another reason why we should be doing it, now, asap, and normalizing it.