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Wouldn't that create a natural balance though? A large instance starts struggling so people are incentivised to move to smaller instances or start new instances and so spread the load more evenly. That's how it would scale. I'm surprised how many of the larger instances haven't closed signups yet but that wouldn't be a bad thing if they did.
The issue isn't on the user end, but the sub end since that is where all the data is stored.
So, according to your proposal, the best thing a sub should do when it is getting popular is to go private with its existing subscribers and any new people who want to participate should go create their own sub in a different instance.
I wasn't talking about subs, I'm talking about when an instance gets too popular. Ideally you'd want lots of small instances, ideally communities should be spread evenly as well and if your users are spread out that should happen more or less naturally.
Where do you think the main costs of internet traffic and data are?