What is the incentive for people to host an instance at the moment?

I liked the community that had built up and wanted to help that continue.

Because people will choose convenience over their vey own survival.

See Cory Doctorow’s Bluesky and enshittification.

I just use Threadiverse and Threads can go piss up a rope.

Now there’s an argument to be had. I ave tried Mastodon and Firefish and found the latter to be far superior, feature-wise. I think Iceshrimp will be the *key fork that will finally the big breakout hit, especially with the Iceshrimp.net rewrite.

The best thing for on-boarding are topic-specific instances, it makes picking one much easier.

Mastodon isn’t even the best micro-blogging service on the Fediverse.

What would be the incentive for people to do that?

With no safeguards the users won’t know it’s a trap until it’s sprung.

It’s all going well - everything is fully-funded and ticking along nicely.

We did it for feddit.uk, worked out fine - the main hassle was contacting the AWOL Admin. Then it was a matter of starting the transfer of the image files and going off to do something Interesting.

And PieFed and Mbin are also sort of “Lemmy” (though neither in that graphic that I saw:-).

It is quite an old graphic.

Earthcrab

Cross post to !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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That’s really good news - we need more topic specific instances.

Give Mods and Admins the ability to move posts to another community.

Help promote longer discussions by using the sidebar to display comments initially sorted by “New”. Give options to filter comments by Community, Local, Subscribed, Mod View or All.

There is already Lemmy NSFW which, I am led to understand, has more boobies than you can shake a stick at.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Probably some mundane explanation but still…