@kroner @cassidyclown @gray @bot Eh, you can't engineer people out of all their bad behaviors. I signed up on poast and fse to try everything out, then spun up my instance. That's probably the natural cycle for anyone who shares these concerns. I do it for fun, and less for the integrity of the network, though that concern has certainly grown somewhat since I spun it up.
Ultimately I don't think you need to fret too much about homogenization/centralization of the fediverse because there are significant enough drawbacks to it that people will always be flung out of the orbit of large instances naturally (broken poast threads being a really good example).
That just doesn't happen nearly as much on smaller instances.
Keep doing what you're doing, and I think everything will be as alright as anyone could ever hope for.