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Idea for a Fediversal PAAS. Call it a Union.

Sign up with email/password like usual. Behind the scenes your own instance is created in a container. An "Advanced" button allows you to customize installation, including taking admin control, but otherwise, you get a vanilla Mastodon instance with managed admin and moderation.

A turnstile portal for creating individually-owned, containerized, scalable open social media instances, as an optional managed service.

Make "managed" the default, and you're just a user in an atomized federation, managed by Universe admins and mods, like any big instance.

But choose "self-managed" and instead you get full admin and moderation control. You can point your own domain name at it. You can allow users to join your instance, or make it invite-only. You can manage your own block lists and the rest of the headache.

Make either one push-button easy, and I'll tell you what... that's a money shot.

The "managed" service can be monetized. The "self-managed" should be forever free, and governed by an independent body that treats the self-managed users as instances in a federation Infractions by self-managed instances can be punished with simple de-federation. And, since Universe was running the container, it can just archive it pending appeal.

Just sayin'...