Just in case anyone is worrying:
We here at #tootcat are in this for the long haul. I've personally kept several public-interest web sites running continuously since 2005, despite all kinds of life chaos, and those hardly ever had any users at all.
TootCat, by contrast, is an active instance with over 800 users (and growing), and my plans are both to expand the services we offer and, eventually, to have it governed and operated cooperatively.
(We now return to our regularly-scheduled stream.)
(...having completely run out of characters with which to ramble any further.)