I’d like to see a more completely decentralized implementation, but federation does seem like it’s practical in that it’s easier to implement and use while still having a lot of the benefits of decentralization.
Ideally I picture something like a lemmy application that runs it’s own internal, persona instance, but I’m not sure how the protocol would deal with that many isolated instances.
Keeping an eye on things like holochain and locutus to see if one of them will end up being a viable protocol to build a fully decentralized forum app on.
In the mean time I mostly like lemmy because it’s written in rust. Postmill looks cool, feature-wise, but I can’t see myself contributing to it when I it’s written in PHP. I already have to use too much PHP in my day job. When I come home I just want to use an enjoyable language.
Something I’ve noticed is how right wingers who “take games seriously” actually don’t.
They’ll create spreadsheets of games that are “woke” and then cut themselves off from engaging with those, never attempting to understand what this piece of art is, what it’s trying to say, or even just enjoying a fun game.
Attaching the labels of a ginned up culture war to games that you never cared about and wouldn’t have interacted with otherwise is not taking games seriously, it’s cheapening them both as art and experience.
You don’t need to take these people at their word. They have nothing worthwhile to say on this subject.