My 2¢ but I think Mastodon would benefit greatly from a big player spinning up an instance, like a Google or Disney. Someone with both the means to cover costs and who can hire professional content moderation teams. If solid growth here continues I think that’s the inevitable next step.
@pszNicx and that can deploy and scale the infrastructure to support mainstream adoption. It's going to get expensive and crush smaller hobby instances.
@slyferret I’d see it as taking the pressure off the smaller instances.