Further, as it came to mind after-the-fact: regardless of whether a platform has even had the purest of intentions and goals, it does not evade the fact that any mega-platform is a single point-of-failure. That while even if some supposedly moralistic mega-platform comes about, it is still a single point-of-failure for regulatory and under-handed infiltration. They will have their hand forced in one way or another to kowtow to the wishes of government, or just shutdown entirely as the only other alternative. You don't know what the future plan of any mega-platform is, whether they'll have a buyout to realize the value of the startup, or if they're going to cut off and paywall things to start turning any actual profit, after being a money firepit for so long (all in the agenda to farm a userbase). I don't understand why folks continue to build communities exclusive only to these platforms; meanwhile, I've been able to preserve a self-hosted forum, to still be online over 16+ years later. When you have a broader expanse of disparate, independently owned servers, it's substantially harder to completely behead a multi-headed critter. When they exert force on a few to make examples out of, several more will end up taking it's place. I believe people intentionally act stupid about the notion of federation, that just because communities and users are scattered between servers, doesn't mean they're unable to be discoverable. Aside from first-party content you see on a social media platforms, what else do you commonly see? URLs. If there's something worthwhile to share, that isn't on the same platform, or just simply on a different server, we inherently share hyperlinks to resources of things worth sharing, and naturally interesting communities and platforms organically bubble up to the surface. Whether it's XMPP URIs, Matrix URIs, URIs of posts on fedi, usually people will inherently share a canonical identifier that can lead people to something interesting, even when it's to a resource on a different protocol entirely. There is a whole natural, organic system of discovery, but people still intentionally act stupid to recognize it, and I still don't understand the confusion in it.