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 don’t think it’s an instancing problem.
It’s not like reddit doesn’t have duplicate communities for some things. People set out to do the same thing. It happens, and that’s fine.
Sometimes they find each other, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they combine their efforts, sometimes they compete.
Same as individual posts. The good rises and grows, the bad is forgotten and disappears.