Why are flagship instances bad? They become impossible to moderate and require increasingly huge funding. They also create an unhealthy power structure. As funding levels increase, resorting to advertising becomes more attractive, as also does selling data or access to it. And if an instance gets large enough then it has just reinvented Twitter along with all the same problems. Big instances are also susceptible to corporate capture.
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