@thomasfuchs @RetroWizzard Again, I'm not disagreeing that being assigned an instance rather than having to pick one is the wrong approach but just shoving everyone into the same 'generic' instance may also not be the best way to do it. Using mastodon.social as an example - they did struggle back in November with moderation when the first and second large influxes from Twitter occurred and it almost got them defederated by a lot of other instances at the time.