> I think the instances are key, and it could have a lot of value for instances focused on certain communities (e.g. certain geographic regions, or academics, o

> I think the instances are key, and it could have a lot of value for instances focused on certain communities (e.g. certain geographic regions, or academics, or whatever). These exist - Japanese instances, German instances, an instance for academia, etc. - but instance discovery and search in general is pretty bad on Mastodon. I think that's a key problem that'd holding a lot of the potential of federation back.