@grin Ok, by the numbers.
1. Yes.
2. Well, your "village" will and someone may decide to share it with their friends, who would share it with theirs and so on.
3. Actually not, because of #1 & #2 -- my exposition to external news is limited and filtered through people who share content. So my contacts (on the mutual basis) are my content curators.
4. I would rather think that users are not interested in back-end. Front-end integration is what an average user experience. As for having it or not, there are platforms that are designed for it (
#hubzilla and, while crudely,
#friendica) and those that are not. And people choose according to their diversity of needs.
5. You sound vague here. In
#fediverse, the abuse and inappropriate content is handled at the instance level. Rules are defined and enforced there. If an instance is perceived (by others) as a regular and intentional source of inappropriate content, it simply gets ostracized through blacklisting. Police-wise, it only concerns the instance, where the content is generated. No central choke point, no problem.
6. The question is open indeed, and interesting. I hope to live long enough to see it becoming a practical problem. As for now, do not think it will, for three reasons:
6.1. The majority of users will still be happy with centralized and AI-driven media. Simply because of carefully crafted habit/addiction.
6.2. I do not expect celebrities to be very much into fediverse, exactly because it is not suitable for their kind of PR.
6.3. Finally, my frame of reference assumes that we are experiencing the All-crisis and within next decade or two we will see Internet "Balkanized". Even having 200 million users will then mean that they will mostly communicate in local/regional clusters, with global communication ratio dropping.
This is, BTW, the reason why I am also working on various topics related to
#NetCommons and low-power/low-speed networking for local communities.
999. I respect your perspective, even if I do not share it.