After sleeping on it, I think #Mastodon should rename ‘instances’ to ‘Communities.’

Instances feels too technical and I see even savvy people struggling to understand it.

I argue communities would make much more sense. It denotes much of the purpose behind _why_ this service has different instances, and many people will already be familiar with the concept from Reddit (the, what, sixth most popular site on the net?).

So yeah, until I get bored, if you boost this I will tell what is almost certainly a lie about you.

Something like "@soandso sneaks into my apartment every night and draws a moustache on me" or "@thisotherguy always carries around exactly USD$2.72 is pennies and refuses to say why. We can only assume it is for sexual purposes"

"Google in particular has come close to realizing our nightmare scenario from 1998, a vertically integrated Internet controlled by a single monopoly player. Google runs its own physical network, builds phone handsets, develops a laptop and phone operating system, makes the world’s most widely-used browser, runs a private DNS system, PKI certificate authority, has photographed nearly all the public spaces in the world, and stores much of the world’s email."

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