I think you’re greatly underestimating how many non large corporations just host their shit in US-East 1.

That’s not how domains work.

Haven’t tried it but bookwyrm participates in the fediverse

https://joinbookwyrm.com/

I think it’s only collusion if they all talk about doing it. Reading that your competitor raised prices and then raising your own isn’t the same as using back channels with your competitor in order to agree to both raise prices

That’s where I’m at. They left the fediverse when they took the approach of aggressive defederation with everyone else. Them fully leaving is insignificant now

If you don’t come into work today you are going to put undue burden on all of your coworkers. It’s certainly not my fault for staffing to the absolute bare minimum so that there is no room for people to be sick or take days off, it’s your fault for being a lazy worker

They use GitHub sponsors. There is a link to support them listed in the readme on their GitHub.

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager#-sponsors