Why YSK: If we want to keep the Fediverse in the hands of its users and prevent "enshittification" (search it), it's good to know how corporations kill grassroots projects like this.

I saw this in another thread on /c/Showerthoughts. I think it's important for this to be circulated widely so that the broader Fediverse community is aligned. We don't want admins second-guessing their decisions when users start infighting. We should be united in our thinking and ready to protect our platform.

Does anyone know of an instance hosted locally? If not, I'm happy to set one up. May need helping administrating it, though.

I've noticed that other server instances can be quite slow, so I thought a local instance would be a nice latency reduction, depending on how exactly ActivityPub works. I haven't read up on the protocol yet. If it doesn't respond to the client until the remote federated instance responds, then there'll likely be no gain in speed

I was thinking about patterns in history and was thinking about the fall of Rome. We all learn about the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, but I don't recall ever learning about the time in between. Sure, Rome's empire collapsed, but what happened next? City-states? A hollowed-out Republic? Anarchy? Did the goths raid and pillage everything? Did they just go back north? Did they settle in? I wanna know