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@chihuamaranian @thomasfuchs I agree for onboarding purposes deciding on what server to join is a serious impediment, but I think defaulting to the oldest, largest one is a terrible approach. The "what if Garg sells out to a Musk-like being" argument is kinda ridiculous but the concern is real if overblown.

A better default would be an "I feel lucky" or "pick a server for me" that randomly picks from a curated list of a hundred or so general-interest instances.

Some counterpoints:

- "people can move" is a user hostile attitude, especially when moving is still an arduous process

- when The Big Server going sideways drives mostly savvy users away it turns The Big Server into a ghetto of sorts...it is already "the AOL of fedi"

- vertical scale is the wrong kind of scale for federated services. We really need horizontal scale with smaller simpler servers that are easier to deploy and manage

- thousands of smaller servers vs one server that dominates makes it less resilient to hostile players, not more.