@udon I'd say it's a double edged sword.
On one hand it's nice to have the entire network in your reach from day 1, but on the other hand exactly because the entire network is in your reach from day 1, you get cancel cultists to take their pitchforks and torches all day long desperately trying to neuter their own Fedi experience to match their dogma as much as possible.

For example, when you have a fresh install of Pleroma, you federate with nobody, so you have to go out and remote follow people on other instances in order to federate, or get found by others.