Federated open-source networks cannot be sold, bankrupted, or blocked.

Evidence

Mastodon, for example, is a federated social network of “instances,” each using free software on a community-run server whose users can nonetheless communicate with those in other instances. As its creators point out, Mastodon can never go bankrupt, be sold, or be blocked by governments, because it consists of little other than open-source software. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 581

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth verifying whether ‘can never be blocked by governments’ survives censorship regimes in practice.