> Email is the example I give people of how federation could work... You can't get banned from email.
Except e-mail has been a total failure when it comes to spam/abuse, and in practice it isn't this federated, decentralized paradise at all -- virtually everyone I know uses Gmail for their personal account. And if you want to run your own server, good luck getting Gmail to accept your e-mails at all.
And if you can't get Gmail to trust your server, that's pretty much a ban for all practical purposes.
Except e-mail has been a total failure when it comes to spam/abuse, and in practice it isn't this federated, decentralized paradise at all -- virtually everyone I know uses Gmail for their personal account. And if you want to run your own server, good luck getting Gmail to accept your e-mails at all.
And if you can't get Gmail to trust your server, that's pretty much a ban for all practical purposes.