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What has tended to happen in the past is that an instance will grow to the limits of its moderation capacity, and then abruptly close after admin burnout or technical mismanagement hits, burning the users who trusted in being on the "biggest instance". Some of those users will cry sour grapes and roast the Fediverse, but the network as a whole is indifferent.
A for-profit instance could go further by employing staff and monetizing, but introducing monetization makes users leave. There's a cap on what money can do for pleasing communities, and the incentive structures inhibit them.
Users who get into ideological fights will tend to cluster together on their preferred space, making it easier to mutually block the entire instance. An admin can opt to block an instance by default, but not fully defederate. That lets friends subscribe to each other without being forced to move: the boundaries are permeable.
There was a blogpost that went around a few days ago that had some positive-sounding stats for network health/diversity. If I find it again, will link.
Sounds like we need to get used to the idea of a more fluid content network. IT always says to back up your work, soon we’ll have to make backups of our communities too.
What I dislike about this is the loss of knowledge every time an instance goes down, is there any mitigating factor for the loss of content to admin burnout, other instance enders?