we have an actual leftist party that has legitimate chances
We do not. The NDP may have actual leftists among its membership, but it hasn't been a leftist party in 2 decades now. It's a neo-liberal party focused on courting an urban professional class and denying any and all claims that they are "socialist".
"Just use this thing that you've already rejected for X, Y, and Z."
"Have they fixed X, Y, and Z yet?"
" Fuck you for asking."
The point of federation is to publicly share what you want to publicly share, not to have unfettered access to whatever you want to consume.
They've not handled the transition from conservatives-on-bikes to protestors-in-suits very well.
Yeah, it's so unbelievable. The acre is much too large a unit to fit into the astrophysical canon.
"Futurologist" is a self-appointed honorific that people who fancy themselves "deep thinkers" while thinking of nothing more deeply than how deep they are. It's like declaring oneself an "intellectual".
How often does "a bunch of non-devs flock to a half-baked community FOSS project and suddenly gain a bunch of devs" actually play out?
The one reasonable possibility is that they might pick up a designer or two, but how many community FOSS projects seriously consider non-code or non-art contributions? Because based on the FOSS software I've used, it's a vanishingly small number.
Coders over-value code, and under-value everything else.
We've spent a century+ pretending carbon pollution has no cost, and the entire history of capitalism -- if not our species -- pretending all other pollutions had no cost right up until that cost was undeniable.
So, not surprising that we're treating CO2 the exact same way. Only this time around, the polluters realized they could get ahead of the issue and convince enough of the general population that carbon pollution is harmless to prevent it from becoming publicly undeniable.
The system working as they intend.
I think much of it comes from "futurologists" spending too much time smelling each others' farts. These AI guys think so very much of themselves.
There are good tools for limiting your view to only what spells are relevant, too. I like the spellbook over at pf2easy.com for this.
Federation isn't a mess, it's just... messier. And too many federated services do their damnedest to hide that they function differently, meaning people treat them like they're perfect drop-in replacements.
It results in a lot of questions about "Why can't I ____?" and answers of the "Because this doesn't work that way" variety.
Like, look at Mastodon. It bends over backwards to hide the fact that it's 10,000 different websites. The result is that people could not understand what the big deal was, nor why it wasn't as easy to see everything from some other website as easily as they could from a single website that everyone was using.
This further led to centralization of the Mastodon ecosystem, which... I mean, at that point, you're just abandoning the central concept.