People really need to stop dogpiling on the most popular instances and instead spread themselves out.

Yes, but the common user would just register on the most popular instance. It will take a lot of effort to change that mindset.

Exactly the reason why Lemmy at scale will never work, since most people won't run their own instance.

Making a comment also for testing!

I do that on my own instance too :D, private and small instances are really the way to go!

FWIW, I don't block any instances or sublemmys, cross-instance community discovery has always been half-broken in Lemmy and unfortunately nothing I can do about it except force a discovery by searching the instance locally by searching for it.

Cheers :)

FWIW, I don't block any instances or sublemmys, cross-instance community discovery has always been half-broken in Lemmy and unfortunately nothing I can do about it except force a discovery by searching the instance locally by searching for it.