I found myself chatting with my dad and brought up the topic. I couldn’t come up with any actual advantages a federated platforms had. The main reason I use any federated platforms is because they’re either not as enshittified as the alternatives or run by huge dickwads. Since it mostly fits those criteria, I’m on Bluesky too, but once that goes I’ll either switch to another un-shittified platform or Mastodon.
But on its own, what advantage does a federated social media have?
You can play with moderation tiers. We have societies with Reddit-tier fascist moderators and other societies where the moderation just bans spammers and flooders. That’s nice. Of course we’re shifting to moderation craziness too, but very slowly and it is impossible to completely kill the freedom because of the federation background.
Social media is a garden that needs to be tended