Change log  I'm traveling in the coming weeks have bought myself  - Travel router GL-AXT1800  - Private internet access VPN  I will be talking about how I get on with these upon my return.  
The federated web is not all sunshine and rainbows   What is the federated web okta.com/uk/blog/2019/05/what-is-federation-and-why-should-your-apps-support-it/ 9 dark secrets of the federated web https://www.infoworld.com/article/3676590/9-dark-secrets-of-the-federated-web.html
Benefits of the federated web

• Own your own data
• Choose the community/server you care about
• Support that community
• Privacy benefits
  • No single company owns both the server and the client
• No ads (Yet)
• Competition
• Open source
  • Trust in the code base
• The network will survive if your server drops

Negatives of the federated web

• Many servers, Many admins and many problems
• Fragmented experiences
• Duplicated data is unsafe data
• Logs logs logs. At scale this isn’t cheap
• Stay off the block chain
• The admins are sysadmins not just community admins

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