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1. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Aug-2021 22:38:31 EDT simsa04
   The simple answer seems to me: Join the biggest instances. Their amount of users have the best chance of reaching more accounts of other instances than smaller or more nice instances.
   
   Also, it is because bigger instances with more poeple raise the likelihood that most notices of one conversation thread are actually covered/displayed that bigger instances turn out to grow even more whereas smaller ones rather stay small or perish. This is centralisation that kind of mimicks the centralised commercial platforms.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Aug-2021 22:43:28 EDT lnxw48a1

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      That indeed is a major problem in the federated space. One of the few things that I think Evan did right in the Pump.io transition was that he set up a bunch of public pump servers and a randomizer that would take new users to the sign up page of a random public instance. It helped keep Pump instances from growing huge relative to other public instances.