I see things differently. I think there should be a few general use instances. The general use instances I think should be the “main” instances.
Then there should be specialty instances. Like a star trek instance, with several communities, each covering a different topic.
Or a baseball instance, with several instances, one for each team.
Or a H Jon Benjamin instance, with several communities, one for each project he’s worked on. Maybe even have some peertube videos on stuff he’s done.
Each general use instance, I can’t imagine needing more than 10 of those would have a large amount of people.
Each specific subject instance would have lower population. But thats ok, because their main role isn’t to host users. It’s to host content. Whereas the general instances would mostly hoat content and be a link aggregator.
Of coarse…none of that is how it’s being applied so far. Right now it’s an unorganized mess.