Imagining if Mastodon called instances "neighborhoods" instead. The metaphor works really well IMO and doesn't sound like robot-speke.

@alexhillman If you're aware of this already, I apologize, but Geocities had "neighborhoods" organized exactly like Mastodon instances 20 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities#Neighborhoods

Yahoo! GeoCities - Wikipedia