I don’t know, man. I think you could run the fediverse if you put your mind to it.

Exactly. The devs should probably just work some overtime and make this happen before it’s too late!

Don’t get me wrong, I’m onboard with these decentralized platforms. I’m not questioning the value of this federation system, but the potential volatility of parts of it. The concept of an '‘instance’ may be old, but that seems to be a new buzzword, fit for abuse.

It’s not much of a concern so far. Threads are generally small enough to read through, but some (especially news) threads do get quite large.

But then I’m just going from one echo chamber to another. Ideally, I’d like to see civil discourse from all most people from different walks.

It feels like starting a new instance is the trendy thing to do, similar to creating some new crypto shitcoin a few years ago. Of course, nothing is guaranteed, but I would imagine more deeply rooted instances would generally offer more support and be less likely to disappear.

Would a smaller instance not be more likely to have weaker support, or more prone to shutting down and taking you with it?

Classic reference!

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