It’s an interesting thought, might need a bridge to bridge the bridge lol

Though there would almost certainly be a performance hit needing to go through so many layers

So that they can make a better user experience, customized to their brand, and in turn be able to cast the widest possible “customer net”. They could also be using custom openVPN software so they can do more advanced protection layers, tailored to their service ofc

It’s true a comm made on any instance can be accessed from any other instance on the network.

But in addition to personal preference and just wanting to keep things neat, it also helps keep things more decentralized to help prevent one instance becoming too big for its own good. Aka the .world problem

Lol I make them as I need them, .zip is a “Gaming and tech focused instance” so now when I make a comm that falls into one of those categories I’ll make them here