[PaulHoule]

I was just told that it's a big instance problem more than a small instance. Somebody else on the instance has to have a follow request approved by the victim so I can follow them without their consent, so it's not like I can make my own private instance just to violate people's privacy, see

https://chaos.social/@paule/114224679955738365

[paule42]

Yes and that's why it is especially bad since there is only one very big pixelfed instance ^^

[PaulHoule]

Small world!

But really that's a Fediverse problem in general. When I joined up I came to the conclusion that it didn't make sense, from the viewpoint that I participate in social media to be visible, to join anything but the largest instance. Someone could disagree, but I think enough people would agree with that to maintain the dominance of large instances.