JohnnyEnzyme

Well, I… guess that answers the question.

Thank you for answering!

(hmm, where does the word “answer” come from, anyway?)
(it seems so odd across common English)

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Interesting. You sound old as hell (like myself), but someone who took a different path.

I tended to do ‘forums’ while you got the good ol’ newsgroups, it sounds like?

Glad you picked up the reference there, compañito. XD

P.S.: “Naw Jawn, are there really that many girls named <Johnny> in NYC?”
–Bennett Cerf, on “What’s my Line?”

I agree with some of that kvetching, and no doubt ActivityPub and the FV still have much to achieve, but I still feel good about the overall model of the FV, and that I’m not being monetized nor exploited as with F------k, R----t, T-----r, and other social media platforms.

Indeed, there’s a fundamental truth about us naked apes that consistently leads us down one slipshod path after another, and that has to do with our chronic discomfort upon uncertainty, and our aching need for surety across all things possible. Unfortunately (or fortunately as it were), reality tends to be a little more complicated than merely meeting our existential needs in such ways. Still, I can understand the sentiment, haha.

Or as an inciteful American once said: “Number One, I order you to take a Number Two!”
https://skipcut.com/watch/r2Y8RUGFlK4

Fair enough, and I think I’m mostly in agreement with you.

I think people almost always mean well - and of course those public instances were needed to get things off the ground but I’m going to say that I’d rather see that they eventually die off as smaller servers become easier to run and people actually have personal connections with whoever runs the server they are using (ideally themselves)

I’ve seen it speculated (or opined) that this tends to be where things are headed, based on the state of coming tech, ease of use, and current models. Something like that, anyway.

“Savior complex” seems way over the top when talking about what you’re describing, which to me is a perfectly normal, healthy reaction for instance-runners and /c-runners.

While true that such thoughts must still bow to reality, in many cases these instance-runners really are doing an incredible, multi-faceted job, and it’s true to at least some extent that they deserve to be thanked in various ways.

Meanwhile, my former instance (Lemm.ee, the 3rd largest at the time) went down essentially due to too many headaches created by asshole users. It’s a real problem everywhere, and I think the average user here does owe some thanks for projects like this which are trying to serve their interests and not monetise them. In which threads like this are perfectly useful & appropriate IMO.

Answering the real questions!