Is there a way that users could cohost an instance? If there isn’t, I think that would be a great feature to implement. Having a situation where instances slow down or even occasionally disconnect will be hard on any community. I feel like it could eventually cause people to prefer using instances owned by large and well funded groups instead of passionate users.
Probably, but it depends. Only a fool would ignore an easy opportunity to prevent the entry of a new competitor. It’s not like we’re some big company with real monetary power of our own. We’re easy to strangle in about a million different ways, just more tech dweeb stuff that only internet losers should like. Or so it could be easily spun.
Lol as a tech dweeb / internet loser I’d like to see them try that argument. That’s why we’re here in the first place!
Yeah, us. But if we ever want to wrest any kind of market share from big tech, that won’t be good enough anymore.