The importance of the local feed shouldn't be underestimated - it's one of the reasons that the 'rglullis' communities have struggled (as discussed on https://lemmy.world/post/20236330)

[–] blue_berry@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Thats an interesting dynamic, which also influences the choice of instance: which instance gives my posts the most initial boost.

This also results in a soft network network effect between different fedi servers: servers with a lot of reach attract a lot of people because they have a lot of reach. Its necessary that the biggest instance implements counter measures here. Lemmy.world does that by selecting the all-feed as default in the UI. Threads doesnt.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

The communick instances and communities were also managed by one single person, which probably did not help with the trust of the whole system