@mcneely @e88 The fediverse is federated so you can speak to anyone on any other instance. An instance of one means that you don’t have to moderate anyone else, just yourself.
Take that as a core tenet and you have the #SmallWeb (which doesn’t have to use ActivityPub but could interoperate with it if desired).
@mcneely @aral @e88 unfortunately yes (for now). But due to the federated nature of the system, anyone interested to my entire DMs history should hack my instance or gain access to all the federated servers.