That’s what I love about the fediverse. Sure, the huge instances will struggle to maintain their identity, but new instances can be spun up for approx $15/mo USD. Pass the hat around to 100 people and you can easily cover that.
Also instances do not have to please everyone, and they don’t have to push ads, or worry about being a friendly corp playground, so they can just tell people who don’t fit the vibe to fuck right off.
Have you seen what acquiring lots of mainstream users does to a platform?
That’s what I love about the fediverse. Sure, the huge instances will struggle to maintain their identity, but new instances can be spun up for approx $15/mo USD. Pass the hat around to 100 people and you can easily cover that.
Also instances do not have to please everyone, and they don’t have to push ads, or worry about being a friendly corp playground, so they can just tell people who don’t fit the vibe to fuck right off.
Gotta second this. Especially if the growth is sudden. It’s very difficult to integrate newer users into the existing culture.
There are merits to being a smaller community.
It allows it to have a large range of content covering a variety of interests?