That's why, in spite of all the things about the fediverse that are bad, I continue to support it and give my energy and attention to it.
Because we're here doing an anticapitalism.
We exist because people decided we should exist. We have a community because we decided to have a community.
We're doing it without most of the major centralized players.
We could do better, an outage at Digital Ocean would take out a lot of us. An outage at AWS would take out a lot of us. A coordinated effort from DNS providers or domain name registrars would fuck us up.
But we're a blueprint for how a comms platform can exist outside of the control of Capital.