@mekkaokereke I has potential to build also commercial services but more like within "scope of instance", i.e. offer healthy commercial environment. I.e. just like in town you know when you enter a grocery store, or movie rental service, and when you leave from there.
Normally **** drives Internet evolution at least when it comes to bandwidth but in the case of core services it is developers and I could imagine services that I might even use for some dev stuff based on ActivityHub. I've replaced Github gists with Mastodon for instance with the basic stuff. If something like that ever succeed, that could start to stretch to something bigger.
It is like moving from monarchy to democracy in the virtual space.