Feyter@feyter@mastodon.gamedev.place
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services what you're describing is the average fedi enjoyer use case. Small communities that have at least one techy person able to do this on volunteer basis (but normally being a tech affine community in the first place). I think there is a limited amount of people in the world for which this use case works out. I would even say, it's not the norm.
You can (and should) have multiple smaller commercially driven instances competing with each other for te rest. But they need to start somewhere.
Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@feyter@mastodon.gamedev.place
I do not see any actual evidence to show a need for commercially-driven instances?
The track record of commercial social networks is as bad as it can possibly be:
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-02-20/facebook-accused-of-letting-activists-incite-ethnic-massacres-with-hate-and-misinformation-by-survivors-in-ethiopia/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587080/mark-zuckerberg-holocaust-denial-kara-swisher-interview
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data
etc etc etc
"Small communities that have at least one techy person able to do this on volunteer basis"
You don't need to be techy to run an instance, paid managed hosting does all the techy stuff.