Similar to Mastodon’s spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    Does it though? My instance has very little locally, but if I browse ‘All’ it really isn’t any different than being on any other instance, even a big one.

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      1 year ago

      You are only shown what your server has stored. Your server only stores what people of your instance have subscribed to. If you visit bogger instances, they all have different Hot feeds, because each server pulls different content. There is no one way to see what is going on in all of the fediverse. You are only ever shown a part.

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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        1 year ago

        Sure but above a certain user count, your instance will usually have at least one subscriber to just about every active community. (I may have used a bot to help this process…)