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recognizing the pattern of owners/mods abusing power and no one really agreeing what exactly that entails, will always find that decentralization is the way that it has to be.
We tried centralization and doesn't go well. The answer is not to keep trying the same thing.
Well, no. Centralised social media did, and is, doing extremely well by most metrics.
We can build our ivory towers and feel happy and safe within them, but it doesn't change the fact that we're not missed and the above probably like that we're not there pointing out its flaws.