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Honestly the federation is really more of a confederation: There's no centralized authority, just a set of common rules everyone agrees to abide by (the protocol), and relationships between members are still bilateral (and voluntary)
@brunodias Yep, from simple sets of rules, applied consistently, beautiful and complex things can grow (thinking of the laws of physics and the technical rules of participating in the Internet...)
@brunodias I was once told by someone that they used "federation" even when "confederation" was more correct because they didn't want people to confuse it with the (Civil War era) Confederacy. Racists ruin everything, I guess?
I don't know that "confederation" is any more intuitive a word than "federation" but it seems to map better onto how those words get used outside of the tech world.