If internet as proven anything, it's that power is taken by pricks most often than not.

I mean the gafa have obvious flaws, Stack Overflow and Wikipedia are run by some "elit"... Reddit has some moderation problems too. (understatement is my kink too, yes... )

And mastodon is far from perfect in this matter. The good thing though is changing instance is... if not easy, at least not as radical as just stopping using it and losing every contact you had there. But it's new, so maybe I'm still a bit too optimistic about it.

So it raises the question : How do you stop people aggregating power?

I mean, if we don't find a way, breaking the system will do little good in the long run, and will probably hurt a lot of people before that.

And even without pre-existing structure, social or otherwise, some people tends to take control, some other follow. It's a reproducible and falsifiable experiment.

So again, how do you stop people from accumulating power and then abuse it? And yes, I mean even in an anarchy.

And obviously, the answer can't be "an authority". An authority is a kind of power, so...