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I made a post that was similar a week or so back that was fairly controversial where I advocated changing how the federation protocol works. I've been thinking about it more, and I think I have a solution to your concern (and mine) that keeps the admins feelings about federation and not allowing one instance to dominate in mind.
On Reddit, especially old.reddit, when you search at the top you actually get two different search results: subreddits matching %string% at the top, posts matching %string% at the bottom.
We should mirror that. The current search should be modified in the same structure and pump the search string into https://browse.feddit.de/ or implement it's process into the server code.
I think when someone types in android, getting a list of currently existing Lemmy communities with their respective populations and post counts is probably the easiest way to smooth out the learning curve.