You can do your own thing as much as you want, and choose with whom you federate, and others can do the same. That's just freedom of speech and freedom of association. Large instances aren't "dictating" anything to other instances. The point is you can't do that with Twitter or Facebook or even Reddit to the same degree. The fediverse will never have an Elon Musk trying to purge it of the "woke mind virus."
>And this doesn't even consider the numerous malicious practices that one can do (...)
Your argument here seems to be that because most instances are small, that makes them more prone to security issues. And that's true, but nothing you mention here is unique to the fediverse, and all of those risks are still greater with mainstream platforms even with their bigger security budgets and resources. People hack Facebook and Twitter all the time, and millions of people get their data stolen, and misinformation spreads like wildfire. In this regard being decentralized, smaller and able to defederate from malicious instances are features rather than flaws.
It is definitely a flaw in the fediverse that identity is tied to a url and so there's no way to validate an identity across instances, and it is trivial to impersonate someone by simply using their username elsewhere. I think Nostr got it more correct in this regard, and I don't know what could be done to mitigate this at a technical level.
But even then I think that at least the fediverse is a necessary step in the right direction.
>And this doesn't even consider the numerous malicious practices that one can do (...)
Your argument here seems to be that because most instances are small, that makes them more prone to security issues. And that's true, but nothing you mention here is unique to the fediverse, and all of those risks are still greater with mainstream platforms even with their bigger security budgets and resources. People hack Facebook and Twitter all the time, and millions of people get their data stolen, and misinformation spreads like wildfire. In this regard being decentralized, smaller and able to defederate from malicious instances are features rather than flaws.
It is definitely a flaw in the fediverse that identity is tied to a url and so there's no way to validate an identity across instances, and it is trivial to impersonate someone by simply using their username elsewhere. I think Nostr got it more correct in this regard, and I don't know what could be done to mitigate this at a technical level.
But even then I think that at least the fediverse is a necessary step in the right direction.