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I think you're right. People will gravitate to the most stable large instances because their "All" will be as close to 100% as possible without doing anything special. I wrote a script to seed instances and update subscriptions, but it uses a single account that is subscribed to everything so that other users can see everything. That's not something that would normally happen. Maybe that needs to be part of the base software?
Knowing that instances only pull posts/comments that occur after the first subscription, it will become less and less viable to choose a small instance if Lemmy doesn't add the option of adjustable pull settings.
I don't suppose your script is published anywhere? My comment adjacent to yours mentions how something like Mastodon's Relay system would really help solve this issue, and it sounds like what you've made is probably the closest thing we'd have to a relay system for a while (given the core devs being super super busy with the existing issues).
On a side note, I wish there was also a way to set the homepage of an instance to "All" as well (which can be done user-side, but not globally), my instance only has a meta-community for announcements, so I can imagine that it just looks like an absolute ghost town to anyone who stops by.
https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony
That's cool, thanks i'll check it out. I also found https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs
That‘s so helpful, thank you for sharing it with us! One question: If I want to update my known communities in a month or so, can I just rerun the script or will that cause issues?
You should be able to rerun it anytime. It only gets stuff that doesn’t exist on your instance. That’s how it was designed. It is dependent on browse.feddit.de however. :(
Have you got a link to that script? I want to seed my local private instance!
https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony