"Why should #federation grow at all?" well, we see that it's not so much growing. For me: it's about meeting like-minded people. E.g. it was a great pleasure to see and talk with @lohang while he set up his instance. Believe me, if I wanted: I'd be running the biggest instances in the !fediverse. And not only the biggest, probably the top10 biggest. But I invest my time not in that, I like to educate them more