This is really cool! But -- and I mean no disrespect -- it's not really Tarot (or at least not the Major Arcana). Tarot is about symbology, whereas these cards are akin to the Minor Arcana royalty -- Page, Knight, Queen, and King. The art of the Major Arcana is specifically designed to contain certain symbols which can be used for readings. Of course, there are plenty of decks out there that do not conform to this, but they aren't particularly useful as Tarot. It would be really cool to recreate this symbology as Major Arcana cards in the context in Elden Ring though!

You're pointing out the exact problem that I am describing: Users will naturally flock to the largest, most stable instances, thus centralizing lemmy and removing the benefit of federation.

The reality is that reddit still exists, and is still more user-friendly (and that's a low bar). It's great that lemmy is getting this bump, but it won't last unless we make it easy to switch for most people. If lemmy was good enough to be a reddit alternative already, it would be. But it's not, and the only reason people are here is because of the protest.

I'm not familiar with Hubzilla, but it sounds like one possible solution!

Thank you for that insightful comment. You've really addressed my point in its entirety, and thoroughly proven me to be a dullard. I submit to your vast intelligence.

I don't think it's fair to call it "Aggressive Moderation". It's barely possible to moderate on Lemmy right now at all, and that's why they defederated. They simply cannot trust outside instances as much as their own, because they screen every user, and they can't keep up with moderation. Defederating is their only option until mod tools get better.

Instances won’t appear and disappear weekly.

No, that will always be happening. The only thing that will settle is that the trusted instances will become known and people will stop signing up for less trusted ones.

It won't get more users if it continues to be difficult to use.

Yes, exactly! It's good for everyone.

That's the issue though. Without a locked identity on an instance, people will naturally choose the option they think is least likely to disappear in a few weeks.

Using DIDs would involve a completely different system. Everyone would have to create a new identity anyway.

Notice how everyone pretty much uses gmail? If gmail goes down you lose access to everything, but it won't because it's google and they have money to throw at problems. That's not true for Lemmy (and we don't want that because it leads to Reddit 2.0 where all power is centralized).