It’s the same with linux distros. One of the instances could get a critical mass of newbies but we will still have die-hards trying to gatekeep the entire fediverse.

Even Digg. I still remember the complaints about mrbabyman.

Not sure if shadowbanning can work here. Wasting each instance’s limited pool of resources is not what we want to encourage.

Kudos for self-hosting fediverse stuff, man.

It will probably split and congregate around instances focusing on heavy moderation and KYC vs crypto-focused free-for-all ones if they ever gain traction.

I’m worried about the link rot problem when the specific instance used as source goes down.

Redlib and Libredirect are the only thing keeping me sane when I absolutely have to open Reddit.

Shit, I have desktops running with 2200G and 2400G.