Decentralized

• Ours. Not controlled or owned by governments, Google, Elon. (No dictators, not me, not you.)
  When no one owns the network, everyone does.

• Robust. Resistant to shutdowns or censorship.

• Corruption-resistant. No concentrated power to exploit.

Back in the day, our only option was to organize in hierarchies — city council meets in town, state reps go to the capital, and so on.
But organizations love power — whether it's government, media, or tech silos. And once they have it, they don’t give it up easily.
Today, the technology exists to take that power back — collectively and in a distributed way.

No one owns the Internet. When it was new, some thought, hoped, or expected for us to throw up our own Web pages on it, but instead powerful silos that made it convenient for us to post our content on their platforms.

Each of us can control our own small world — who exists, matters, or doesn't.

• You trust, you block, others do, too. That's the network(*).

• No center, no hierarchy, no payola, no editorial board, no temptation or opportunity for corruption or bias (other than your own)

("Democracy 2.0", when I'm feeling melodramatic ;)

* The Nerd'ster is transitive regarding computing the network it uses; when you block a bad actor or trust a good one you're helping all who trust you. Other services can use statements however they choose.