The business mentality demands competition and unlimited growth, which encourages ‘next big thing’.
The fediverse motivations are not necessarily business. So we can define what we want from it.
Could we get John Oliver on board with the fediverse?
If you’ve done any weird customisations you may want to make a ba k up of /etc . I wouldn’t recommend blindly restoring /etc , but at least you’ll have a record of the system configs, should you need to redo stuff post reinstall.