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I view the general purpose instances as either a starting point or as a home base. Even then, the general purpose instances all have their distinct flavors. Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemm.ee, beehaw.org, and sh.itjust.works DO NOT appeal all to the same people, but they still represent for many the same totem within the fediverse. These are the general purpose home base instances that people sign up for at first, start exploring, discovering communities, and perhaps learning that one thing or another about their home base's moderation style isn't quite right for them. Maybe sh.itjust.works takes too long to decide to do something, perhaps beehaw.org defederates from an instance with good communities because that instance has too many users on it to moderate the people that even that other instance owner wishes weren't on them, potentially lemm.ee is too open in its federation policy for you. You learn these things as you explore. Along the way, too, you'll discover that maybe the lemmy.dbzer0.com crowd or the slrpnk.net crowd consistently are saying things you find insightful, interesting, or that you agree with, so you go check out their instance and discover "hey! This is a fascinating set of specific communities and ideals. It might be this is where my second home should be" and suddenly, your Fediverse experience has become much more tailored to you.
All of this is fantastic! And it's only possible because the fediverse is not a collection of pooled compute resources acting as a cluster, it's because it's a loosely associated grouping of self-governing online gathering places.
Oh, and, of course, there's the ultimate ideal instance for everyone, possumpat.io. The instance for people who like possums. Which is everyone, obviously. There is no need for any other instance. The entire purpose of creating the packet-switching technologies of the 1960s that the entire internet is built on top of was to enable the creation of possumpat.io. The entire point of the death of reddit was to get people off reddit and onto possumpat.io. We have entered the post-game fuckabouts part of the sandbox simulation that is the video game we all inhabit
The real beauty of the fediverse is that, despite having not been blessed to be on possumpat.io directly, both you and I can subscribe to https://possumpat.io/c/possums anyway, and enjoy possums from the slums of our home instances.
Who doesn’t enjoy possums
Monsters, that's who. Uncultured monsters.