“If you read [the #Pope’s] statement with #thefediverse in mind, this is almost a diagram: #Subsidiarity without #solidarity is #fragmentation: a thousand instances each guarding their own place, with no shared obligation or collaboration, with no place to maintain the commons that is the network itself. There is no form of #federatedDiplomacy, or even a mental framework on how servers should interact, besides #defederation when you get too annoyed with another server.”

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr164-the-pope-on-defederation/