[johnnyanmac]

>I cannot understand why anyone would want to deal with fediverse anything.

for reassurance and redundancy. People going rouge or sites being compromised by greed or other issues are inevitable. But if one server goes down (literally or figuratively), you got 29 other servers to lean on, and it makes adding a new 30th easier.

>I want one with hundreds or thousands or more

that's still possible. Meta's new "Threads" may in fact be that. But the issue of how the internet is converging towards a few select corporations is an issue not exclusive to the fediverse. Having any kind of new forum in the 2020's overcome the networking effect is a massive feat.