If you see a need for a community then start it.

!solarpunkstrength@slrpnk.net

No you are wrong about that.

That’s the trick.

You could, for example, have a bot running a text-based RPG in a Mastodon thread, where you get to see others in your group take their turns, then you have yours.

I think the best of both worlds would be if I could make an account on both and have one account essentially repost anything from the main account, unless I’m replying to someone specifically where it wouldn’t make sense to reply on both accounts.

That’s what I’d want from a bridge - something to connect an account at each end. If/when Bluesky suffers enshittification, it would mean that folks on Bluesky could just switch the direction of the bridge and start posting in the Fediverse. No sunk cost leaving you hanging on, no high barrier to moving.

It is odd when I see people compare Bluesky unfavourably with Mastodon when a lot of the features they want are on *key forks.

I haven’t tried it but I’ve seen various comments that suggest it works well. Time to do some research…

You can bridge the two now.

What is the incentive for people to host an instance at the moment?

I liked the community that had built up and wanted to help that continue.

Because people will choose convenience over their vey own survival.

See Cory Doctorow’s Bluesky and enshittification.

I just use Threadiverse and Threads can go piss up a rope.

Now there’s an argument to be had. I ave tried Mastodon and Firefish and found the latter to be far superior, feature-wise. I think Iceshrimp will be the *key fork that will finally the big breakout hit, especially with the Iceshrimp.net rewrite.

The best thing for on-boarding are topic-specific instances, it makes picking one much easier.

Mastodon isn’t even the best micro-blogging service on the Fediverse.

What would be the incentive for people to do that?

With no safeguards the users won’t know it’s a trap until it’s sprung.

And one became the Death Star.

Without R2 ANH would have gone very differently.

It’s all going well - everything is fully-funded and ticking along nicely.