yeah, that's a fundamental problem of services delivered through servers, that federation doesn't even attempt to address. as mentioned in the other thread, p2p/f2f networks do, and I'd love us to move to that architecture instead of retaining this undesirable aspect of surveillance capitalism, namely dependency on exclusive servers. there seem to be some misconceptions about how difficult that would be for users, but we're seeing that choosing a server is *the* main perceived obstacle to joining a federated network, so I'm more and more convinced that jumping straight to p2p might have eased the adoption path.