Gregory's Server@maegul @dimillian @ncrav @aral mmh. I dislike the idea of aggregating servers simply for the fact that it's another centralized thing.
Having different servers represent different communities (in the traditional, offline sense) makes a lot of sense to me. I'm thinking more in terms of one portable, controlled-by-nobody-else, user interface that lets people interact with all these communities.
@cmw @dimillian @ncrav @aral
Yes on the uncentralised options! Except that they'd probably work well in terms of performance and caching etc, and probably wouldn't result in more centralisation than we've seen already from mastodon and mastodon.social.
If the software were open, then you could hope/expect multiple instnaces to be run with different focuses in terms of topics/niche-instances and policies around moderating/banning accounts. Also, different UI designs, which would be important!