Reading up on my country’s political system today and realising I have a better understanding of how a federal system works thanks to being on the fediverse and observing the discourse there.
Terms like “cooperative federation”, “federating units”, “decentralisation and devolution of power” make intuitive sense now instead of feeling like legal abstractions.
Which reminds me of something I read last year:
There’s an obvious connection between a decentralized internet, in which individuals create and oversee their own digital identities, and a functioning democracy, in which we make informed choices about who rules us and how we are ruled. Yet too few people make that link.