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> Wouldn't that matter only for smaller instances or instances with specific topics though?

Not really. There are allegedly 1,107,765,841 posts on fedi right now. Nobody's database has all of those posts. Fedi has about 13m people, FSE has heard of about 4% of them. FSE's got 2,153 accounts, and even if you tried to get the broadest possible sample of any 2,153 people you could find, you'd find some subset of those 1.1b posts that nobody in that sample cared about. But you take 2,153 people, they'll be following some other number of people, they people they are following will be following more people, and one of those people likes something, it has a good chance of being relevant to at least one of the people here even if there is no overlap in interests. Because there tends to be an overlap in interests, though, even if a server is general, maybe some group of about 20 people have some overlap in this specific interest, so a post liked by someone that one of those people follows becomes relevant to 1% of the people here.

This is one of the problems with relays: it pushes a lot of shit that nobody on your server cares about, which is then buried under the infinite scrollbar never to be seen again, but with its effects felt in the bloated indexes.

> I don't know what TWKN looks like on FSE, but from my time on kiwifarms.cc 2 years ago I cannot imagine it being much useful.

That's because kf.cc had a large number of people that compulsively followed accounts in order to stalk or antagonize the people running those accounts. (I don't know what proportion; I have friends that were on that instance, but anyone can acknowledge were plenty of fuckers that were creepy, bellicose, or both.) The current flood of minds.com bullshit aside, FSE's TWKN tends to be more relevant.