Ah well... I didn't have much hope that it'd work.
That’s literally the point of the federated decentralization, so people can be allowed to make their own decisions...
This is not quite accurate, and it neatly illustrates the problem.
"Allowed," in this context, is incoherent. There can be no "allowed" unless there's some authority empowered to, and mechanisms by which to, allow this or disallow that.
The literal point of decentralization is to move entirely away from institutionalized, hierarchical authority by arranging things so that it can neither be claimed nor exercised in the first place.
And one problem is that people tend to drag their authoritarian habits of thought along with them.