@jeff we already have been there almost 10 years ago with #diaspora*. I personally hosted a pod (an instance of diaspora*) during seven years. This is why my hope for the federation by that time was a protocol taking into account the precarious nature of servers in a decentralised network. Notably minimal dependency upon DNS for users. But we got #activityPub poorly protected against servers shutdown rather than #Hubzilla and it’s nomadic identities persisting beyond servers lifetime.
@jeff Agreed. Running servers costs money. Same goes for an unlimited Internet connection.
Not to mention that it can take over your life and, and, and ....
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