One of the best things about Mastodon is I don’t even really care if it gets more popular. It’s already fine the way it is.
@mikeindustries I would prefer it to grow slowly so that the non-profit running original servers (mastodon.social, mastodon.online, and joinmastodon.org) could handle more people.
I like commercial instances, but if they get big enough then their interest is not to support Mastodon API as well, then client infrastructure will be hamfisted.