“…the world thrives on its faults and strives, by every possible means, to aggravate them, while at the same time masking them like a congenital deformity. The signs are everywhere, though I could not always read them.”

—Thomas Ligotti, Mad Night Of Atonement

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Cake day: November 4th, 2023

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  • People say that a few large instances would be easy pickings for the profit motive, and monetizing.

    There is a lot of handwringing over on mastodon about how people should not be directed to the large instances by default. And that people need to join the small instances to make sure mastodon (or fedi-verse) is not taken over by a few who want to profit off it. They mock those on large instances. They tell people they should join small instances.

    But I have seen many small instances close and leave people in the lurch. I have seen a few people have to move several times.

    I have seen users be abandoned and left with a broken instance that doesn’t work, and the admin nowhere to be seen.

    I agree. But maybe the medium ones aren’t too bad.