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@djsumdog Or perhaps you're looking at the issue in a less useful direction, I would say excessively hopeful way.

I see the regions as you aptly describe the Fediverse's cramped federation as being something perhaps like Conway's Law writ large.

Or use cold war as a metaphor. If the Soviet Union still existed when the Internet got big, we'd expect it to be even more like the PRC, hermetically sealed behind as good a firewall as they could create.

At the US level, we've been in a cold war for a very long time, it's getting more and more intense, to the point our republic is dead as such due to the end of that perhaps least worst system solving the succession problem. That is, the total rejection of Trump by a very powerful 20% of the nation, and the lawfare that attempted to destroy Trump after 2020 when he was formally out of power is another marker of a dead one.

You cannot possibly expect such a society, which as I understand it is mirrored in pretty much the rest of the west, to openly and freely communicate when we're perhaps just one incident such as a few tenths of a second head turn from a hot shooting civil war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law

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And this is why I think Nostr is superior to Mastodon

@kpeace @djsumdog Eh I think the #Fediverse has some advantages over #Nostr. I like it more, but if *all* you care about it people on the platform being able to see what you have to say, then #Nostr clears, easily.