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The fediverse isn't over engineered, it's just not quite focused on the right aspects. A federated social network needs to be more like a block chain, where the content is centralized, and the instances (miners) are decentralized. The content is the important part, and with everything being tied to an instance, it makes the content harder to access. You have instances defederating, going down, closing, and version conflicts, all that makes it harder for a network to gain traction.
But who will moderate the content? Who is to say to what is legal and where? In USA and in EU different pieces of information can be shown. CSAM needs to be removed. Main lemmy devs removed only active mod on !anime!anime@lemmy.ml due differences in censorship.
The same people that do now?
Blockchain is immutable so you can't remove the content.
The same people can't moderate the content if content is centralised, there would need be an overlord that sets the rules.
Block chain was more on analogy than implementation. The key is that data isn't bound to an instance, and ideally most people never need to know about instances.