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You could ask their admins why they have their instance configured that way, but I would guess that it is because none of the small number (310) of local communities there are very high traffic: sorting their Local view by New shows that there have been slightly less than 20 posts in the last 3 days and more than half of them are from a single user in a single community.

So, having the logged-out view show All instead of Local by default makes some sense.

Does this mean the instance is inactive? No, it says they have 322 users/day and 827 users/month. So, I assume most logged-in users there also primarily read and post in remote communities.

We've discussed this on our instance a few times, the downside to setting local as default is that the instance looks small and hyper-specific to new users. They might not realize that there is a wider network of posts available. Someone who is familiar with how the fediverse works is more likely to know about the different feeds.

A good compromise would be a configurable banner for logged out users, so then an instance can pick either option and leave a note about alternatives