There is finally a decent alternative to reddit, after one has been needed for years? And it’s open source federated software?? AND I can sign up on an instance that supports free sharing of media?!
I have been waiting a long time for reddit to fuck up badly enough that something else could fill the vacuum they created and do it right. Awesome.
Targeting specific servers sounds like a problem of centralization, not fragmentation. If hosts can just easily move to new proxy servers, and users can easily create new accounts on any random server, then I don’t think the Fediverse would be easy to target. The direction that a lot servers are going, with having to type a paragraph to join, seems like the opposite direction to me, and it makes me appreciate this server more.
That’s not really the ideal scenario though. Perhaps it’s fairly inconsequential for you personally, but I’d personally be rather irritated to need to create a new account, not only needing to re-subscribe to all the communities I followed, but also finding replacements should that instance that contained them go down.
However,
I have yet to encounter this, but this does sound positive.