Comment by PaulHoule

With distributed moderation the repressive government can, in principle, publish its own labels, but by publishing labels they make public what it is they want to suppress.

Federated social media could be used for very bad purposes and it would be impossible to stop. Consider this situation

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

in the centralized case we can point to Facebook as a responsible entity. The thing is Facebook later got kicked out of Myanmar not as accountability for those crimes but because they were insufficiently pliant to the government. In the future a country like that might just run its own Mastodon network where it is all genocide all the time.