>Which is not much consolation if everybody is on the first instance. Federated systems are typically designed so this isn't an issue. You aren't limited to se

>Which is not much consolation if everybody is on the first instance. Federated systems are typically designed so this isn't an issue. You aren't limited to seeing only content that originates on your Mastodon instance, for example - you can follow users on other instances, and the instances will share their content as needed. Of course there are other considerations there - instances may choose to share content conditionally e.g. only with other instances that comply with their banlists. But this is true of email as well.