Here's a personal announcement:
I plan to shut down my instance this summer.
I'm trying to shrink the number of different services I am using, to reduce VM and storage costs (reducing costs even more would imply downsizing my servers, which would degrade even more performance of my services).
And I figured that I didn't have very interesting stuff to share lately, everyone on here is already doing a great job in providing the Fediverse with awesome content ^_^.
So I think that, for now, I'm going to "archive" this account and use @clemv (a third-party-hosted Mitra instance) as my main account from now on.
And ultimately the instance will be taken down during the summer.
I may take some time to redirect every link/profile and resub everything there, so don't worry if I'm not following you from the "new" account yet, I'll do so before I take down my instance :)
For evidence, of how "#trickleDown" does not work, just look at this instance. It has been giving a voice to activists for years and yet is not able to sustain itself at a mere $40 per month.
Our long-running activism instance (UK-based but they move through Europe by boat) is having to shut down on 8 October due to no funds.