[account42]

I'd take all the spam, trolling and harassment in the world over letting some would-be censors decide what I can and cannot see, or say to others who want to hear it.

We should all be thankful that so far neither corporate nor authoritarian have managed to completely kill the biggest federated service we have: EMail.

That federation makes authoritarian goals harder is a problem for authoritarians, not a problem with federation.

> the "PHP sucks" and "Micro$oft sucks" culture that prevailed in technical circles in the 90s and early 00s whose toxicity is something we still deal with today.

Both of these have been righly criticized for many reasons and trying to frame that as some kind of bad thing does not invalidate the criticism.