well, i don't want to be rude, i'm not communist or capitalist, just an average guy and i respect every political views, But when your alias/name is 'communist', i think you just obtain the opposite of what you want.
I agree with you : federation is missunderstood and if people doesn't want an instance with political bias, they can choose another one.
well, it's confusing for new user like me : you have the feeling that as soon as you subscribe to a community, you interact with the same community on all instances.
Forbid duplicate names could be a solution
The possibility to follow hashtags in mastodon is a real progress : i just follow a few account but i like following hashtags on mastodon/pixelfed and may be tomorrow peertube. lemmy suffer from lack of contents. I hope it will improve in the comming months
As long as a hardware will be sold with microsoft/google/twitter/facebook by default, no chance fediverse replace all these well-established applications.
BUT it's not a problem for me : i use what i like, open-source, and i let other use what they want.
i tried lemmy a few months ago but i didn't find enough content. I'm happy to see popularity is going up, and the new android app is a real game changer
i miss some reddit communities, but for a basic usage, lemmy/jerboa replaces reddit without problem.