@Corfiot Was this essay worth anything? I would summarize Masty as being a collection of warring city-states who only decided on standards for the roads.

The text gives off a positive vibe of someone who is excited about this technology. It just has mistakes, that it later on corrects as it elaborates. In the end, most of it is technically correct. Not sure about if it needed to be this long, it's not very well written.

I'd say fedi is forums, just faster. Same moderation issues, same use-case, same problems. Remember forums had bridges, too, tho they were rarely used.