Sub as a noun is fine. Sub can just mean subscription (to a community) or "at a lower level" so lower than an instance, thus community.
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Yes something like this should definitely be implemented. Mastodon has the feature of "moving your account" from one instance to another, but I haven't tested it yet. Don't know if it has anything like you mentioned like key management.
I'd like the idea of certain instances becoming so large that it attracts the larger populous and becomes one of the major platforms. That is if it remains to be open source and federated.
(Edit: or just a community)
Why is background crypto mining not used? If it's openly communicated and is an opt-in option, people might prefer that over donation or ads.
I'm talking about the possibility of it growing and reaching the larger populous. They do not have adblockers. They will therefore finance the instance. Not for profit, but for sustainability. But even now, there are people here who do not mind small and non-intrusive ads if it's for a non-profit instance. Not everyone here, even now, is a world-wary anti-consumer, whatever that is.
it doesn't need to be. I'm just saying that it may not be even possible to compete, if you were to want that.
the same can be said about instances with millions of users uploading and downloading millions of images and videos. I'd love to follow along and see that journey would go. I mean, I hope I'm wrong but I just don't see it being sustainable if you want to compete with reddit for example.
I feel like that's a massive hurdle for proper scaling to overcome. One of the reasons FOSS platforms can never supersede the others
not escaping to a bathroom and not escaping the building are two different things entirely
im so confused. what happened
Carefully writing that down. You can delete your comment now. Thank you