@dredmorbius Oh yeah, growing pains abound.
I tend to make my enthusiasm public, and keep my pessimism private.
I find it rarely does any good to try and arrest the momentum, but hyping it might push it past "where do I go now that twitter is dying" and towards "Oh, I also believe in that vision" for a subset of people.
However, I also see people staying in their original instance and then moving, trying to find a better fit for themselves. The influx will probably dwindle, and my guess is even most of the people will move to something else entirely, but for some, probably not insignificant number of people this place will feel like home.