Prude: Pale on Nostr: Where one would draw the line is certainly discretionary, for me I think it's about ...

Where one would draw the line is certainly discretionary, for me I think it's about 100 active users with consideration towards something like Dunbar's number, the limit past which it's increasingly likely ever member can't have a quality connection with every other local member (let alone all the remotes they'd be interacting with).

Certainly, if instances on the scale of Poast split all of its active users into an equivalent number of 100-man instances, it would mean a rise in a huge number of independent, high-activity instances that don't monolithically stonewall parts of the network, and which are much more difficult to completely take down, while also allowing each to develop a more specialized niche that better serves whoever lands there.

It would also make for a lot of new admins that are both thus decentralizing expertise of how to run an instance, and make for more hands and eyes potentially working towards improving the software.