@mekkaokereke Can't disagree with any of that. I have this optimistic vision of a future where the Fediverse is a large collection of small lifestyle businesses and member-owned co-operatives.
I think I'm less worried about tech & scaling than you are. There'll be painful spots but there are enough people around with the development and ops mojo to get us through.
I expect GCP & AWS to offer instance-as-a-service and there's nothing wrong with that.