The fediverse has real moderation problems, and one way or another, changes are coming to the ways in which they are addressed. Two possibilities present themselves.
We can continue to watch as solidarity and any sense of mutual purpose drain away, while self-appointed central-authorities assume control of the best practices on how to do a fediverse. Or we can proactively affirm and act upon the recognition that democratization, decentralization and the horizontal distribution of agency remain the only hope for preserving the fedi as a safe site of resistance and prefigurative possibility.