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this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2023
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I like this approach. Only downside I see is, that it makes communities on smaller instances kind of irrelevant unless they are specializing on a more exotic view on a subject (maybe a conservative take in politics vs a progressive view). Is this not creating a big concentration of „relevant“/big communities on the big instances? I get the feeling any @lemmy.ml or @beehaw.org are on a good way to be the standard/go to instances for communities.
They're not irrelevant, they're just small.
There used to be a thoduand different, I don't know, Sailor Moon forums out there. Some where small, some were big. Some may have been inactive, but I promise you that the small actives ones were not insignificant to the people who used them, and the people who used them did so for reasons beyond not knowing the big ones existed.
There's zero reason for everyone to be in the same place. It doesn't provide a benefit. It just silences the voice in the back of some people's minds that tells them they might be missing out on something because it's somewhere else.
Different instances are different communities. Different communities have different things to day about different topics. Let them have their spaces. It's not like they don't have direct and immediate access to the "big" forums here, if they have anything they want to share there.
Nice point of view, thanks for sharing. I think I viewed things more from a Reddit point of view, where most subs are so big that real interactions in my experience are not that common because everything moves kind of quickly. So I mostly used it as a link aggregator (kind of like an rss feed). If viewed as a Forum, I kind of like the idea of smaller separate (but accessible)communities. I only have to get used to it a bit.