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Things are spreading out too, but it's only natural that the biggest instances will have most communities (most people mean, most communities created by them too).
I'm not talking about users, I'm talking about communities. Moving from one big instance to the other is not spreading out. Just check this community's sidebar listing "Other Gaming Communities" to see "how spread out" it is.
Some instances taking a strong stance against federating with Meta and some not ruling it out made me start to get on board with communities being located on different instances in case a migration becomes necessary again, so a huge bulk of communities aren't affected in that scenario due to most being centralized on one.
Yeah, I agree with this. I was checking different instances and communities today, and while there are tons of smaller instances, most of the communities are centered around bigger instances.
Fun fact: I joined lemmy.world and started nintendo community here when join-lemmy showed it had 3 users / month, and lemmy.world registrations required approvals. Didn't sign up on lemmy.ml to spread out the load to smaller instances. Didn't know it would become the largest instance soon after that.
I understand and I have no issue with communities existing on big isntances, but moving extablished community is a perfect opportunity to choose a smaller instance as it's easy to convert existing subscribers.
Again, if I had more time to evaluate alternatives I likely would have gone down this path. What I will say is if a migration tool for communities is developed, I will look into migrating again in order to accomplish this goal
And I established on lemmy.ml originally when my only real options at the time were ml and beehaw, and beehaw was more restrictive on signups and didn't allow for community creation. Things change fast.