the fact that we - not just on fedi, but everywhere online - can communicate with eachother as if we'd communicate to the person next to us, is radical, in today's world

sure, its normalised, but its not normalised when you consider real-world laws and other social situations, tensions, etc.

compared to that, being able to communicate with them online as equals, was previously only paralleled by *mail*, the relative universality of mail was the previous holdfast of unfettered socialisation without borders, and now the internet has replaced that, and yet the world's institutions hasn't moved closer, not really