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Isnt the problem mostly that most people dont spread out to other instances, and thats why you dont get the benefit from being distributed?
I mean, right now its a bit silly seeing people sign up for the most overloaded instances and ignore the ones with low amount of users. It should be exactly the other way around to maximize the value to the community.
In fact, to really benefit growth of the entire network, popular instances should stop accepting new users so they spread out on other instances by default.
There are literally only pluses being on a small instance: much better performance, no latency, no timeouts... and still you can subscribe to anything. What are the advantages of having an account on a big overloaded instance? I cant see any advantage personally. In fact, it will give new users a bad first experience.
The problem is that in order to understand how the system works you have to use it first. Now if you are one of the people running away from Reddit, it's natural to try to find the most popular server that provides most content to scroll through because that's how it it used to work.
It also doesn't help that join-lemmy.org highlights active users per month as a metric even though in the end it shouldn't matter at all.
Absolutely. Having grown up with MMOs in the early 2000s I honestly thought I needed to pick the biggest most active instance akin to chosing an active game server 😅