I don't think you can leave the client architecture as-is, without it getting steadily worse.

Everyone's follow lists are becoming more and more concentrated because the bifurcation in numbers of followers has reached absurd levels, due to the heavy onboarding concentration to Primal.

People used to onboard to different clients, which each had its own discovery method. Now, it's like a funnel. 

 Is primal the most used onboarding client? I imagine it is up there. I wish they would even add some other options to their sidebar panel, something like 'hashtag discovery', even nostrband's daily trending users list is more interesting and useful than what is on offer now. No idea how hard this is to implement tho lol? #primal 

 It's not hard. It's just not wanted. Software design is about making choices, and they have made other choices.