@aj @taylorlorenz I think it's better to describe it more as a matter of a contrast, as the centralized big tech platforms like Twitter/X, Facebook and Instagram are like city & town hall meetings, with a huge number of rules, official & unofficial that keep them extremely hierarchical & very loud, but the fediverse is like a set of mostly rather small coffee shops, which makes it much quieter and more meaningful, without much of a hierarchy, but nonetheless very much with rules. They each have a very real purpose in our society but they're not even close to identical in said purpose.