Hmm the prices on eBay really don’t seem that good to me in comparison to newer generations. I guess the power consumption will eat up any savings pretty quickly. Though this might differ for whole sets.

Imho that’s a horrible idea. A large part of content on the instance I’m on has become bots just reposting news articles without any own contribution, no discussion, nothing.

Of course it’s not about centralisation per se, but the problems that a centralised platform does not have to deal with.