The ideal way that ActivityPub federation works IMO is a bunch of smaller nodes coming together to make a large network.

If you have a bunch of people all on one or two instances then you’ll have a “central hub” of the network that’s constantly overloaded.

That’s my advice to community builders on this platform… Spread out across smaller instances, don’t just all sign up to a big one.

I already use Revanced to avoid ever having to see a sponsored segment or ad. If I’m forced to look at their awful ads I’ll just go elsewhere.