this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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There's always going to be people that want to be on a smaller Instance, because it's frankly an objectively superior experience unless you get unlucky with your admin. There's really no major advantages to being on a large Instance. That I know of anyway, and I'm on one.
So, running a smaller Instance is probably always going to soak up some demand, so long as you advertise it a little bit.
One downside that I’ve run into is discovering communities. Your instance only gets updates from communities someone on that instance is subscribed to, so you’ll have to go to other instances to discover them.
My instance uses a seeder script that'll do exactly that, but automated. It'll check the most popular communities on the most popular servers and use an account to subscribe to them.
Boom, /all feed populated.
Oh cool, didn’t know that existed. I’ll look into that