great blog post from @SarahJamieLewis on federation in the model of mastodon etc that basically matches my view on it https://fieldnotes.resistant.tech/federation-is-the-worst-of-all-worlds/

let’s try to push towards a better long term outcome. cypherpunk interested in privacy tech, zk, AI, XR

I also generally agree, but to the blockchain quip: why not? the alternative seems to be DNS style name alias mappings, a step up from Mastodon but not entirely decentralized https://i.imgur.com/koWseVh.png