It feels like many Lemmy instances end up trying to be “Reddit replacements,” which results in dozens of very similar communities with overlapping topics. I wonder if it would make more sense for each instance to focus on a broad topic, like sports, literature, or technology, and then have communities for the subtopics within that.
What are your thoughts? Do you prefer many general instances, or would you rather see topic-focused instances?
I personally prefer Lemmy Instances to be more personalised based on whatever theme/topic than a “one size, fits all”. For example I’m on Lemmy.blahaj.zone which while is more for trans femme & trans women, I’m on it has it’s queer-friendly. There used to be Lemmy instance for Autistic people which I remember was nice but it was shamed it got closed down.
Seeing same community name but on different instances is little overwhelming and I tend to post or use one that seems more active. I’ll understand if that community in question has a moderator that does not great decision (like going too heavy on banning users or not doing anything about the bad-actors on that community) but otherwise, it just feels crowded and I had to spend couple minute to decide if a post I will make there will get as much attention compare to the other one.