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Yeah, I feel like this should be surmountable. At worst, you skip the whole concept of federation and just tell them exactly where to sign up.
and this is why i get so tired of people saying it's bad to have a big instance like mastodon.social, like bro do you fucking want the platform to be successful or not? it seems like people just want a small isolated place to circlejerk each other rather than something globally useful.
Yeah, I don't get that. Federation is the option to have a hyper-custom server that does weird things, or to make your own server with blackjack and hookers if you don't like your current one, without losing access to community and content. Most people aren't nerds, though, so if you want plag-and-play an instance like lemmy.world is great.
If you want a small bubble you actually don't want federation.