@sun i don't see why we would want/need a clone of "the good old times" at this point. social circles tend to calcify and i think thats what youre recognizing. maybe fediverse is aiming to have infinite users but one instance cannot (or should not) get all the attention and activity. people feel comfortable coming here and microblogging in relative obscurity and imo thats the most it should be.
who are we competing with? twitter and discord? mastodon? an idealized version of ourselves from 5 years ago? all of those are bullshit anyways