ISPs should be obliged to provide a static IP upon request. That's all the "decentralization" the internet needs. Anyone else's server, whether the protocol is "federated" or not is sub-optimal. Freedom is inherently tribal; normalized social obligations and pressure to abide such things is antithetical to freedom. The only place normalized thought matters is "the real world" that keeps meat bags alive. I have no obligation to join a religion or submit to social bubble rules on some server I can just avoid by using my own. I share with people via simple Go http based services in Docker containers. Computer science people who have nothing to do but think about these things all day are over-engineering the shit out of things to try and be the next cool new way to organize fleets of machines when no one asked them to. The lack of 24/7 protest for universal healthcare in the US is public acceptance no one should have to give a fuck their meat bag lives. I'm so sick of the real shit being ignored for "OOOH NO MY SPEECH" gibberish.