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@bobwyman one is just continuing the great tradition in the fediverse of supporting small instances of 1K, 10K, 100K people.
Second is setting up financial structures that make those feasible long-term without bankrupting the admins.
Individual operators with high hosting bills and legal liability are juicy targets for anyone wanting to roll up instances.
@bobwyman another one is emphasizing the equivalence of one domain with one real world group.
For example, company instances, family instances, local city or neighborhood instances, nonprofit or professional membership instances, all emphasize equivalence of a domain with a group.
We know from email and Web that this cultural norm can help a lot to maintain decentralization.
It's not sufficient in and of itself, but nothing is.
@bobwyman I think you've probably thought about this problem more than I have!
What social or cultural practices might help to keep the federation decentralized?