The difference being that you can create your own kingdom easily because we have access to unlimited land and resources, making any attempt at control futile, which is something that kings have to keep in mind. It feels like you’re glossing over the problem. If the lemmy.world admins start oppressing furries, for example, very few people are going to migrate away from lemmy.world to replacement communities on pawb.social, they’re just going to remain on the anti-furry lemmy.world communities, which will continue to grow and disenfranchise furries, and most users probably wouldn’t even notice the problem. It’s all well and good to say “you can just spin up your own instance and create whatever communities you want”, but if nobody is going to read my posts and comments I may as well post them into a sewage drain.