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

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 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?

I believe you

I would agree if we were talking about another centralized social media site, bit I’m here to escape the interface of sites like Facebook.