however, the classic example of a federated system is email, and that whole
ecosystem has almost entirely been eviscerated and cucked. it's nearly
impossible to run a mail service independently and expect deliverability to
the big platforms.
Why would you want to assure deliverability to the big platforms? If you want to talk to smaller mail servers, then start your own mail server!
We all need to collectively stand up against big email providers.
The same thing will need to happen to federation. With email, you should tell your users/recipients "Google marks my email as spam, complain to them, not me." Same thing with federation.
Ryo made an interesting blog post about this topic
ryocafe.i2p/blog/liberate-email-ignore-dkim/
b32:
http://nrxn6euv4xrcvvkkkgxon27rkjyyodlwsbkz7mcyacdtw4nqk7iq.b32.i2p/blog/liberate-email-ignore-dkim/