It's about control of the platform. A datacenter isn't going to start making administrative decisions about the "business direction" of your instance. They can shut the server down, but so could a thunderstorm on a home server.

Even if the data center did (for whatever reason) administrate an instance, the idea of federation still holds because users get to decide if they like the decisions being made - regardless of who is making them.

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