This is great! Thanks!
there are distinct cultures between different instances and it is a strength of the Fediverse that instances are not just faceless pieces of infrastructure, i.e. pipes to content, but rather thriving communities with real people behind them.
Yeah, that deserves emphasis.
That instances are the interconnected nodes that make up the network.
I would even just use the word "parts" instead of "nodes".
A bot shilling for Musk or a person shilling for Musk because they bought the hype are basically the same thing.
It's the scale that changes. One bot can be replicated much easier than a human shill.
ZK-proofs
This is a solution in the same way that PGP-keys are a solution. There's a big gulf between the theory and implementation.
That certainly doesn't seem sustainable at all. You need to take care of yourself and I think you're making a good decision.
None of that is available for me where I live.
That's my motivation for many of my posts on Lemmy communities.
Accounts in which authentication has been provided seems like a better measure.
Seems like a severe undercounting
I hope they start supporting people who want to run an indexer. Right now they just point to their source code and say, "if you can get this largely undocumented complex service running on your own, you can run a indexer, but don't ask us for any help".
I'm not entirely confident that it will happen before their only funding source decides to cut off the cash flow.