Nobody’s really hiding the existence of slaves, so I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here

I think this underestimates how users will naturally gravitate towards more centralized instances, or they’ll give up because the bigger instances are closed. Someone’s gotta pay for it, and it’s going to cost more than a Netflix subscription. Servers aren’t cheap.

This also ignores that the system isn’t horizontally scalable at all, so scaling up gets even more expensive