[merdaverse]

Federation has many flaws, but this is not one of them. It makes sense when the service is new to focus mostly on one big instance instead of many instances with 10 people each. Case in point:

- The Mastodon flagship instance has 25% monthly active users of the total network https://fedidb.org/software/mastodon

- Lemmy flaghsip* (which is newer than Mastodon) has 38% https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

As time goes by people will distribute over the other instance. And even now it's not so bad as you make it seem.

* Not even the actual flagship maintained by the developers, but one created by the community