Gregory's Server
The thing about being practical and relentless: each time Silicon Valley deviates from de-centralization, we need to change the terms.
They're creating accounts on the Fediverse? Okay, make the conditions such that they must host an instance.
Now they're hosting their own instance? Defederate if they're disrespectful of community norms.
They're blocking big volunteer-run instances for skeezy reasons? Start small single-user instances.
You know, as much as I like the Fediverse and I cheer it on -- I don't even see it as the end game.
For me, the end game is P2P tech that doesn't even require the web.
Ideally, there would be self-sovereign, nomadic identity.
Connections would be double opt-in.
I should be able to communicate even if the entire Internet goes down, and I'm forced to connect via Bluetooth or sneakernet.
That's my ideal social media -- but we're not close to being there yet.