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.

We did it for feddit.uk, worked out fine - the main hassle was contacting the AWOL Admin. Then it was a matter of starting the transfer of the image files and going off to do something Interesting.

And PieFed and Mbin are also sort of “Lemmy” (though neither in that graphic that I saw:-).

It is quite an old graphic.

Or am I?

So Shrek will be happy.

If it can withstand attacks by dragons, some weather will not be an issue.

Yes

Ah but that is the coup de grace - at the flip of a switch the carpet and ceiling roll back revealing the complete mirror experience. These people have mirrored bedsteads and pool tables, they are all in on mirrors.