@greenWhale @aud @aral @eatyourglory I don't disagree with your argument. The larger the server, the harder it is to moderate effectively.

On the other hand, discoverability, availability of content, and having a self-contained social platform that doesn't require us to open Facebook or Instagram, can only happen when we get a big platform plugged in. We can't expect to solve these problems by adding small instances of 10-100 users each to the pool. We've been trying this for a while, and it didn't really work.

If we want all of our friends, relatives and elected politicians to be on the Fediverse, then the best way is to have Mark let them take a walk outside of the fence he's built - and that's exactly what's happening now.

Eventually, I believe that higher adoption and ability to effectively moderate everything are mutually exclusive. We just need to pick which one we prefer.