Very yes. I run a Mastodon instance and very quickly got to the point where new accounts are only available if you ask me for one, and if I decide to let you h

Very yes. I run a Mastodon instance and very quickly got to the point where new accounts are only available if you ask me for one, and if I decide to let you have one. Which is not a thing I do lightly for strangers. The last thing I want is growth. Then I'd have to treat it like my full-time job and deal with managing an ever-more-unmanageable number of users, finding ways to deal with ever-huger bandwidth, storage, and CPU requirements, and somehow making enough money off of it to pay for all that, plus my own rent. Fuck growth. It's a little gathering for a few friends and that's about all it needs to be.