I had been worried about this with respect to Mastodon for a long time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30447645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3044

I had been worried about this with respect to Mastodon for a long time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30447645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30447645 I think it was only a matter of time before the human resources issue came front and center. My hope is that there can be a good balance between small federated instances kept alive by altruistic volunteer admins and larger instances with enough moderation and funding to handle the number of users that a social network expects but increase centralization. Maybe the conclusion will be that no matter how the technology scales, finding a way for the instances to be kept alive will be a social problem that requires constant attention. The reliability issue also makes me wonder how much of the Fediverse is setting itself up for link rot and the loss of unique content after their maintainers lose passion or move on. And that wouldn't be because of a business decision that is hard to empathize with (in the case of Google+), but simply because a single human body has its limits.