Franz Ferdinand is the most correct answer in this comment thread.

You are being down voted because you didn’t answer the question you just complained about a conspiracy you’ve imagined.

Oh ya what happened to that site? tap tap tap

Tildes is currently in invite-only alpha, and you must be invited to be able to register.

I assume all the elitists complaining about the eternal september (including the 20 years olds) have sequestered themselves there which is best for everyone.

If there’s $10 left over one admin can buy 2 slices of pizza and a can of pop in payment for 1000s hours of free labor.

Nothing is perfect and nothing is permanent.

If you are extremely motivated to have an account that can never be pulled out from under you, you must run your own instance.

In the fediverse, its plausible to do this and still be connected to others. There are.lots of single user instances. There were some small businesses opening where you could pay someone else to do the admin work for you if you are disinclined to that kind of geekery yourself.

I think this is it https://defed.xyz/ all together

But on any instance you can scroll the the bottom and click “instances” in the footer to see its relationships to others