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The point regarding notifications is really important. Managing a popular open source project can be really overwhelming in that regard, and it's easy for individual users to forget that it's only a couple of people dealing with all their issues on the other end.
People stepping up and contributing is a great development. Community involvement is key for the success of open source platforms in my opinion.
And love the long term vision, I completely agree that the fediverse replacing corporate platforms would be the ideal scenario in the future. From what I can see, fediverse has already reached the point of sustainability. It's still niche compared to mainstream platforms, but I think it's clear that it can exist in its current form indefinitely. And I think this provides an important advantage over corporate platforms. Commercial companies have to continuously demonstrate profit and growth to their shareholder or die. This means having to constantly chase new ways to attract new users and monetize the platform leading to the sort of behaviors we see happening with Reddit. On the other hand, open platforms can grow slowly and sustainably. This allows the fediverse to evolve on a completely different time scale. I'm optimistic that the fediverse will likely outlive every single corporate platform that's around today.
Thanks again for all the hard work you're doing, it's very much appreciated!