@evan short answer:no ?
Longer answer: no innocent ? I have long admired the decentralization of platforms like Secure Scuttlebutt—decentralized down to the physical network layer! Works over bicycle-net, sneaker-net!—even though their use of Merkle trees and resulting inability to delete/forget made me sadly give up on SSB. I’d love to see a lighter more energy-efficient ActivityPub. The Mastodon REST API is also incredibly heavyweight (several kilobytes for a single toot).
But. Your point is very well-taken.