The choice isn't between institutions or individual power
The affinity groups you want to run the fediverse are just institutions with unwritten rules rather than written ones
If you want a big, but diffuse federation of small institutions with direct democracy, that avoid centralizing power as much as reasonably practical...I agree! You won't get there by pretending power doesn't exist
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@Lady Yeah I'm coming from bookchin. I understand there are some problems with freeman's essay and would like something that works better in current anarchist discourse