It would be interesting. I’d guess Porro just ends up being quite a bit too direct for it to work out, but I’d be curious to see what would happen. Deki is clever enough to give it a run. Not actually expecting to see it but wouldn’t mind a half or two just for the sake of seeing how it plays out.

DiCaprio wouldn’t ever date me…wait, is “older” code for “ugly”? Oh you little…

First of all, I think lines are going to change a lot early in the season. But I’ll throw these out anyway…

Razor - Larkin - ADB

Fabbri - Compher - Perron

Sprong - Copp - Berggren

Fischer - Ras - Kostin

Veleno/Kasper

Seider - Walman

Ghost - Holl

Maatta - Chiarot

Lindstrom/(Edvinsson)

Husso

Lyon/Reimer (pick 'em, but I’d rather run with Lyon)

I could see several combinations of the first line. I don’t prefer Perron there but guessing Lalonde will give it a shot, too. Guessing the top 6 should end up modestly stable, though, since they’ll probably all spend a lot of time on the PP and we may want to come back with a tough line thereafter to combat a team fresh off a kill. Likewise for Copp/Fischer/Ras/Kostin on the PK, though, we may get some Larkin time there, too, situationally. I really liked how we we deploying regular linemates on the PK a bit last year (larks/razor, e.g.), but it didn’t stick. While it worked for chemistry, surely we’d rather save guys like that for ES and PP time.

Defensively could be hard to say. A chiarot-Holl pair gives me some pause, but I really like the idea of Ghost and Maatta, so hopefully we get to see that at points. But we got a lot of Maatta-Chiarot to close out last year so guessing we see a bit more of it. Seider-Walman seems like it’s theirs to lose and only may get disrupted depending on how the PP plays out, since seider, Walman, Ghost all likely spending some time there.

Highway fucking robbery

And to add, if you want more directly to see the data on activity of the instances and communities, switch the view to “List” from the default “Grid”

I’m not sure if it’s for the same reasons, but Andro.id is another example of an instance around a common intent/subject, with communities based on topics within that subject area.

Interesting concept but agree that if that was the intended means of propagating the fediverse, it doesn’t seem like it’s happening as planned (but still in a very viable way).