Federated sites that use the ActivityPub protocol are very different by design compared to any small centralized alternative. It works similar to email servers but with social media. Everyone can make their own instance and users on different instances can interact with other instances, as well as users from other instances. Ideology can't "take it over" because it is completely decentralized by design.
We already jumped ship from reddit. Also, the problem with small websites is that any ideology can take them over through sheer numbers.
Federated sites that use the ActivityPub protocol are very different by design compared to any small centralized alternative. It works similar to email servers but with social media. Everyone can make their own instance and users on different instances can interact with other instances, as well as users from other instances. Ideology can't "take it over" because it is completely decentralized by design.