And to add, if you want more directly to see the data on activity of the instances and communities, switch the view to “List” from the default “Grid”

It absolutely did! When you’d get into the “rooms” with the gray walls and the electric-y fencehy thing Infront of you, you’d have to dodge left and right while holding the gun in front of you in first person view. That game was so fucking hard…

I’m not sure if it’s for the same reasons, but Andro.id is another example of an instance around a common intent/subject, with communities based on topics within that subject area.

Interesting concept but agree that if that was the intended means of propagating the fediverse, it doesn’t seem like it’s happening as planned (but still in a very viable way).

Yeah this is critical. These promises for money later mean that all sorts of stupid ideas were being funded, and therefore people hired, etc, but now that’s coming to a close. Companies and investors will be more likely to scrutinize spending (as they should) and see how to rightsize with reality and line of sight to profit. For significantly more complex reasons, it’s similar to an individual borrowing themselves into crazy debt, and banks eventually determining that they need more than credit/promises to keep seeding you cash.

Time to pay back some promises.