Personally the permaculture/food forest idea idea like to care over is lifecycle exspectations.

Living things die, its why reproduction is so importatant. We have high energy and low energy periods. Sometimes the weather isnt what we need, sometimes it provides more than what we alone can use. Etc etc

This is what see in terms of fediverse instances lacking community. Who might take over as the lead? Who can troubleshoot an issue at 10 UTC? What about about 2 UTC OR 22 UTC? Who is in charge during ramadan? Christmas? Etc.

Admins are people, the need time off, how does that work?

This can be solved with the intentional community way. An orginization exists. Guidelines and rules documented. Members trained. Rules enforced. Trust given to roles, members given roles. Like an orderly garden.

It can also be managed by creating antifragile systems. Like a food forest. Mbin’s PR community concensus proccess is an example to me. Trust is more in the proccess than the person. Decentralized Autonomus Orginizations (DAOs) are another example of that. As could be smart contracts. Basically steps taken to make the proccesses and ecosystem handle the maintinance move towards this version.

I wonder if a federation of admins could help some there too. Basically multiple instances ran by different people but an agreed standard of neccerary configs to make it a unified interface from the users stand point.