Federated technology, such as social media, actually has a lot of things that i don't feel too confident in. for instance, the dynamic between users is skewed in a worrying manner. While federation solves the issue of moderation, when compared with centralized social media, new problems arise

for instance, what about your administrator? now the responsibilities usually entirely separate from the users is put front and center

someone is in charge of that now, and it's very clear who. if you ignore this aspect, you entirely miss some of your most important interactions.

how does that power dynamic play out? what if the administrator is untrustworthy? what rules are in place to allow you to fight back against these 'bad actor' admins?

honestly i dont think we've had a long enough consideration for the actual reasoning of this, and as a result, a lot of instances are meeting growing pains, and some users get locked into an account with an admin they don't trust

it's far from ideal, and i dont know how to solve it

then again, does anyone?