I love the fediverse.

But same as big platform issues and entshification ultimately comes from a small number of people owning the sites. Many fediverse issues comes from a architecture of a bigger but still small number of instance owners.

Fediverse is a BIG step forward. But it's true, instances are fragile, and a lot of pressure is put on instance owners and final users still have a limited amount of control. Though they still have the choice of becoming an instance owner, which is a plus.

I have only be in the fediverse one year or so. But I have already seen several instances fall and a lot of "instance wars". I don't think this is long term sustainable if we keep growing.

I have been thinking about it lately, and remember one of the most resilient protocols I have found. eDonkey protocol, unmaintained but still alive because users want to use it.

I think the "ultimate" internet/social network protocol could/should be something similar. Which mean truly p2p. Probably some kind of p2p storage and control. People depending more on themselves instead of instance owners.

There was a project about this (plebbit) but I looked at how was it's state after a post here and they have fallen intro cryptoscams :( so that's not going to make it. But I hope someone pick the torch of that idea.