Yeah people are not going to migrate over if they hear they can’t interact with everyone. “Be careful which instance you sign up with because other instances may have blacklisted you, but I can’t tell you which home instance to use because it might get overloaded.”

Honestly I would hate that, but if that’s what keeps the lights on then I’ll deal with it. I would prefer to move to an anonymous donation model like Wikipedia but I’m skeptical that will work.