a frequent issue on the fediverse: success mostly means increased costs. https://web.immers.space/2023/05/farewell-to-guppe/

the fediverse has many flaws, but the ones i'm concerned with are few:

* federating as a social context
* social content curation / discovery
* cooperative resource sharing
* extensibility / customization

the fediverse would be a very different place if the nuts and bolts of the network were built around shared resources. as it stands, every instance has to rent a variety of resources with increasing monthly cost simply to exist. any potential collaboration requires high technical skill and extensive manual intervention.

various attempts at inter-server alliances or federations have come and gone over the years, but none have really addressed the issues of integration and resource sharing beyond automated block list replication. such naïveté.. perhaps the software we use is struggling under its own weight. i wonder why it stays like this.