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Seems like exactly how twitter was before the Elon takeover, except you can't get kicked out of the entire network, you might just have to make an account on a different instance.
Though I doubt you could get a small number of instances. That would require a lot of computing power, and mastodon is hard to monetize.
That last bit is the real reason I don't see mastodon taking over. No ads means you'd have to charge up front, or a subscription, or something. Normies seem willing to endure leftist signaling, but we've never seen them chomping at the bit to pay for it.
I suppose someone could fork the client and change the protocol, but it's not really a mastodon instance at the at point.
Then you lack imagination. There will presumably be some with much stricter mods.
But they'll end up splintering in a series of inevitable purity spirals as these things are wont to do.
Normies would probably end up on whichever one the most celebrities end up on (or their particular favorite if they have one).
This is actually an area where the purity spiral moves in your favor.
Splintering off into their own instance means that the normies can't really be exposed to the memes generated on that instance (they'd have to federate with an improperly pure instance to do that, if they were willing to do that, they probably wouldn't be in the purity spiral to begin with).
As opposed to a new faction splintering off on twitter, where they can get exposure to the entire normie audience.
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