Read Camus, go absurdist, enjoy life. It’s so easy.

That “article”, though. I thought I had just read the intro, but it was the whole thing. It’s this what passes for online journalism now?

It’s like a fucking forum for adults!

What was the post, though?

Quite the opposite. Due to systemic corruption autocracies are economically highly inefficient with low productivity across the board with all kinds of long term effects this brings. And while it might look bad for democracies at the moment, I think many of the current crop of autocracies will be short lived. In the end, economy is where it’s at, and autocracies are horrible at it.

What federation protects from is the singular owner of the platform sweeping in and setting/enforcing new rules for some or all communities. This could still happen on one instance, but new instances can mitigate the effects. Single communities can still turn bad, but it will be up to the users to decide whether to stick around or move to other communities.

You can’t really. It’s that moment when you realize you never “owned” the subreddit in the first place, all your work belonged to reddit.