@RDHale@mastodon.online the larger the community gets the more the community contributes back to itself. Many of us can start our own servers and work to cope with the load.
Where things get more complicated is supporting celebrities with millions of followers. For them perhaps there will be the need for either commercial instances or they will have to have their own instances to support them.
But I can easily envisage instances specifically for a certain type of celebs. Imagine a whole K-Pop instance for example.
@gpowerf @RDHale that’s kind of how i see the future, there will be commercial instances set up to promote various things, and the kind of people who currently have “people” handling their social media will have someone running their own instance as well. As a balance to that, part of the beauty of the federated model is that misbehaving servers can be blocked at the discretion of each and every other server, so all the money and server farms in the world won’t necessarily buy your way into anyone else’s timeline.