@[email protected]: @Techmeme maybe they should have hobbyists run the instances and have them do the funding themselves or through donations! -- OH WAIT THAT'S THE FEDIVERSE, SUCK IT BLUESKY 😁 @jim It sort of works for now because of the relatively small scale and lack of legal attacks, but as soon as some defamation lawyer or prosecutor or regulator gets interested those centrally controlled chokepoints will come back to bite (for example, the central appview and relay server can certainly be forced to stop distributing certain posts). ...