Chris TrottierGreat work by @davidslifka!
He's written an exhaustive post on how to scale the Fediverse.
And he's using Friendica groups to help this along.
I'm going to talk more about this in a few hours because this is ambitious.
Cyber Yuki@atomicpoet @davidslifka @fediversenews
Dashboard metrics
Mastodon publishes the number of servers, accounts, and MAUs (Monthly Active Users). However, this is far from enough to understand how the ecosystem is faring.
I just realized that regarding this, servers could lie. Any rogue server could claim it's hosting 200K users. So we would need a way to only count users on servers we trust, because there isn't a single source of truth.
@atomicpoet @davidslifka @fediversenews
Placing ads in a feed
Dear god, NO! 
Offering algorithms
ughhhhhhh
@yuki2501 @davidslifka The approach that I prefer is crowdfunding.
There's a certain context ads can work, and that's if the server is specifically for commerce (e.g., a Craigslist or Etsy-style marketplace).