Subbed and doing my part.

Certainly to an extent. Though the fediverse model is much more elegant and clear. Plus it offers massive benefits to organizations. Seeking to have communities and comms that they can truly call their own. Maintaining as they see fit. The KDE and blender groups for instance have their own servers and their own communities on them. That they can manage and focus on just their projects. No missing on the servers with toxic political communities like leninists or fascists. Just their projects and only their projects or things related to it.

It's the beauty of federation. Under reddit etc. If a community you were interested in had shit admins, there wasn't much you could do. Here you can create your own theme park with hookers and blackjack. Growing it to build something great.

Does it create duplication? Yes some. Though new backends like piefed are supposed to be addressing it a bit. But more importantly it creates competition.

I suppose it's an easy pipeline. Since there aren't any real substantial differences between the two.

Because the major instances are the ones most likely to need support. That and many of them good or bad try to look neutral.

Because for better or worse. Tanky central is the flagship development server for the Lemmy software. And if as an admin you want your issues or concerns to at least pretend to be heard. You must give the campist undue deference.

Your server at least also has a piefed interface. Don't know if world ever will. Though I definitely would encourage it.