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by 482794793792894 3206 days ago
Anybody can open up a server. The bulk of users are going to sit on the first few hundred servers (I imagine there's a handful of popular servers for each language) and then the rest are just instances that people host because they can or for their group of friends to hang out on.
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eponeponepon 3206 days ago 

  (I imagine there's a handful of popular 
  servers for each language)
As far as I can see, there's a handful of servers, full stop. Some level of criticality exists and is yet to be achieved here.

Edit: gosh no, I'm completely wrong. I looked at the instance list at https://joinmastodon.org/ but didn't see there was a scrollbar!

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