@kev
Sorry for switching to other account, but the 500 character limit on Librem Social drives me nuts 😅

Of course I'm making my judgements based on my personal experience and preferences. I might not be the average user, but I follow a significant number of people and not a lot of them are on big instances, and very few on my own one.
Likewise, some might, but don't see a problem with Element having matrix.org by default, those who want extra privacy will self host their own instances and they have other incentives to do so, like hosting bridges, but at least everyone has some sane default for getting the taste of it and for some, who don't want anything more than that, that might remain a good choice.
Then again, we're only speculating — hard to say what defederating a large server of decentralized media would be like, I don't think it would be anything like Twitter. After all, decentralization was one of the original selling points, that is the part why a lot of the userbase chose it in the first place (not the larger user base) so losing this point might have way more consequences.
Signal might be a good example of this, I know it was federated at some point, but then they've got rid of it. Unfortunately I have never used Signal and know nothing about how that happened and how users took it.

And, like I already said in my other reply, I'm not advocating funneling everyone to a particular server, having a curated list of approved instances (with short descriptions of how their community might be different) looks like a better choice, even if masto.social remains the default.

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