Designers with their own instances can potentially have a ton of fun on Mastodon. 🙂 I plan to make a bunch of them for our instance. This is just a test to see how to add them.  (And yes I know they don't work in Ivory yet 😅 )
@mark Single-user instances are great for customization but really break the federated model. Discovery of new content is super difficult; you become a community of one.
@invariant Yes. That's up to an individual to decide. A lot of designers are pretty savvy and there are many ways to discover new people. But I wasn't really suggesting we all need our own single instances. Was more trying to make a point that it can be a fun playground to create something that many people can potentially use. 🙂 I guess I just wrote a bit too quickly in excitement.
@mark No worries here, I'm on a single-user instance specifically for its customization purposes. But it *is* lonely and not for everybody.