I think what you're looking for is Standard of Living. The economy may be doing well but the standard of living is stagnant or going down for many.

Literally everything is

Drag queens have the best names. My favorite from this season of RuPaul's Drag Race is Amanda Tori Meating.

Any talent Twitter once had jumped ship a long time ago

PSA = Public Service Announcement

Honestly I think this is an interesting real-world experiment in the entire federation paradigm. It's going to happen again and again, there's no escaping it. How does the ecosystem work when two large instances can't communicate directly? We're going to find out.

An older name for 'the fediverse' is 'the world wide web', and an older name for that is 'arpanet.' It's a pretty recent development that a few large companies control access to information.

Maybe they're just shy.

see I'm not sure I see that as a problem. There are lots of reasons to spawn a new but similar community (bad community mods, bad server admins). There are lots of subreddits I avoided because they were just too big to get into any real info or discussion, just the same beginner questions asked over and over again.

Yeah but that would require actually downloading it, so nah.

web3 was within us the whole time

I'm sure it will before long. The server has already been moved to allow for growth, once things are more stable that will be fairly easy to add to a cloud hosted server like this.