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Including billionaires or heritage foundation or Thiel. Also what would you do with this node? Significance matters right now. Numbers and engagement matters. The left have lost significance and engagement year over year. You can stand up a node but how does this safe guard our spaces from being over run?
I can defederate from those instances. Problem solved. So can you.
But they exist still. My assumption here is it wasn't always a shit hole. That the shit hole occurs when a few poor features of digital spaces are exploited. Vote manipulations. Moderation capture. Linking posts and communities by accounts like Libs of TT who brigade. And once you de-federate, what stops them from jumping to any other instances you enjoy?
Keep mind that Trump's truth social is a Mastodon instance. But no one federates with it (by design; they never turned federation on on purpose). That doesn't mean that other mastodon instances are made worse because it's there.