Discord is the worst. Requires a phone number, does not allow email aliases and logs your chats.
Matrix and SimpleX is way better
Can they purge all posts, comments and communities from another instance with one click of a button?
Will rust be able to scale horizontally in the future?
To my understanding vertical scaling has limits which is the servers limitations as horizontal scaling if infinite since unlimited servers can be added
I noticed this with the blender Peertube instance. Videos are missing.
Does the mastodon instance need to be up to date for it to work?
Please add the crypto addresses to the site sidebar under donations. You also may want to consider accepting BTC, BCH and LTC. Glad your accepting XMR though for private donations.