Yep. And the fundamental change that brings is that admins and mods stop being hte "bosses" of communities and act more as curators for the Fediverse at large, maintaining a custom blocklist to suit hte tastes of their users, while simultaneously using their own reputation as a good judge of character to vouch for their users to other admins doing the same thing. No one has to put up with Spez because you just have to if you want to talk on Reddit, you just have to be good to people in the ways that they feel matter in order to reach them. We can just choose to not care about the instances in the Fediverse that take offense to us glorifying John Brown, but can still be held accountable by those whose opinions we actually value. We can glorify John Brown all we want and not care who blocks us for it, but we do care if someone blocks us because we start becoming too tolerant of, say, ableist slurs.