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By not all ending up on the same server.
Could we create an onboarding system that randomly picks an instance for each new user? It is not too important which instance a user joins due to federation, right?
The instance a user joins is quite important. An instance that doesn't want to store images and video will not want users who subscribe to all the image/video communities (that will federate their content over). A user whose interests are overwhelmingly technical won't be interested in local communities on an artist server, where a non-technical user might feel at home. Many instance moderation policies are friendly to right-wing and will be defederated by mainstream instances. And then there are loli/shota/koda instances...
I see. Of course. That would mean the onboarding effort would have to ask a bunch of questions and each of the target instances would have to be able to describe their wants and don't wants. This could get much too complicated I guess.