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  • Is there any reason an instance couldn’t just copy Reddit’s model? (Advertising that’s hidden if you subscribe, paid awards, etc.)

    The beauty of federation isn’t that we have a million instances. It’s that if there’s a problem with one instance (such as greed), we can just go to another. In effect it adds competition instead of walled gardens.

    Even if there’s only a couple big instances that make up the majority of users it’s not really a problem as long as the federation option holds. It’s not the leaving that makes federation great, it’s the ability to leave.