https://atproto.com/guides/identity

CTRL+F "hosting service"

It appears 9 times.

Even in this solution that's supposedly better than Fedi, it relies heavily on the idea of hosting services. In fact it's required. Since every user has their own domain name, there's really no such thing as an "instance". It's a hosting service.

So that made me think my idea from a year ago was actually good and probably ahead of its time. I'm slightly mad about it and a little burned out.