@a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 Case in point, my own single-user node is aware of 12,406 remote instances, and I have only 1,000 contacts myself. But other people like and reply to my posts, so they are probed as well. So my node maintains records for 216,392 contacts.

Most of these contacts would be shared in larger instances, but single-user instances need to keep tabs of remote contacts independently, increasing the network traffic.