The real federation is the password manager in our browsers.

One thing that irritates me about Reddit is how it's converged with the rest of twitter, instagram and tiktok to be just endless scrolling through memes, gifs and videos. Reddit is so far from it's roots and killing third party apps really does remove that old avenue. I do feel like commenting is going to reduce as people just mindlessly scroll through content without really engaging it anymore.

Yeah I'm guessing as the need for moderation of content grows as user activity on a server grows, server operators have the same growing responcibility for DMCA takedowns as well.