Amazing stuff!
I hope others will follow suit, it's the biggest hurdle right now for serious adoption in my opinion and you crushed it!

The instances and communities have appeared in my searches, but posts haven't so far, I don't know if that will change and what is needed to have it change though

Pretty much yeah.

But what's wrong with bolckchains? That technology is good too, a bunch of lowly monetization schemes based around it shouldn't deface the core idea and its possibilities.