what if we had some sort of ICANN like service for usernames and app names, and to store metadata about all the networks, including a graph of the federation, ie who's federated with who... to me the biggest failings is usernames, and taxonomies. If I register a channel or username on lemmy, can I create the same channel and username on kbin? That's a huge fail, when you want something like Reddit, and I think Reddit was the best social network ever until the Corp destroyed it.

The premise though, curated content and forums like Wikipedia meets Usenet, was brilliant. What comes next needs to be maybe partially centralized mostly federated.