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I think that being human scale is largely the appeal of the Fediverse. Each instance isn't meant to grow to the size of a centralized platform, but to be a relatively small community of people with some shared interests. I look at it similarly to the way IRC channels worked back in the day. You tend to have a group of people whom you interact with frequently and that's how you know they're human. If some bot enters the community then it becomes obvious very quickly.