It will happen, the key is to get as many people to host their own nodes as we can.

I call them residential owner-operators, as they post on their own time and host the VPS on their own dime. There are just too many great uses for the Fedi to be ignored, I have at least a half a dozen from discussing property taxes, to introducing the IPFS or other immutable storage into local government, to CAD design and 3D printing fundamental, everyday articles.

When you are creative, political discussions are really a waste of opportunity.