@Lyude I'm curious if you have any thoughts on how to reconcile "not in the hands of a company" with "should not rely on federation and should avoid the technical challenges it introduces"?

As historically, some form of centralization has been *how* these technical challenges have been avoided, but that then creates the risk of "in the hands of a company" again (even if you run it as eg. a foundation/non-profit, because that doesn't fully protect from this for various reasons either).