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It's a little bit funny to see people talking about the benefits of centralization on a website that was built to be part of a larger decentralized network. As if we're not here because of the problems with control and censorship in centralization. Reddit has a history of silencing leftist voices, yet those voices are more "free" to speak here on the Fediverse.
The entire point of the original structure of the internet was to build resilient communication networks for the military so if one node went down, a new path could be routed around the broken node.
Centralization absolutely leads to fascism because it gives all the controls to a handful of people who aren't responsive to democracy.
Our representatives do not represent our interests because they are so far removed from us. We honestly need far more representatives representing far fewer people (like maybe a few hundred per representative) because then a rep has to be on a first name basis with their constituents and understand them because there are so few they represent. Either that or we need to bite the bullet and go direct-democracy and just have senators and house representatives just be figureheads who help write bills, with citizens having the final vote on each bill.
This is why, as an anarchist, the next viable step I see is federated cooperatives. Localized for local needs, connected for national ones.
But that's if we get socialism off the ground in the US. It's looking promising.
Yes, exactly, building parallel systems that actually cater to the needs of the local populace. Interconnecting those systems via federation sounds key to making it work!
That's a super simplistic statement. There are many more reasons for that, and this one isn't even among the top of the list.