I suppose this may make sense in the case of something like Mastodon. But something as versatile and customizable as lemmy, which allows for the existence of separate topic-based communities, makes topic-based instances of lemmy not necessary.

Instead of making a new instance for a certain topic, it is usually a much better approach to just create a new community on my current lemmy instance. At least from my perspective as a user.

I find the only exception to this is censorship and moderation. If I, for any reason am unhappy with an instance’s moderation and censorship, then that is the only potential reason I can see to change and make my own.

What does everyone else think of this?

  • roho
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    1 year ago

    Of course nothing is stopping…

    Except when your account exists on a server which blocks countless servers. A user can’t see which servers are on your home server’s ban list.

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      1 year ago

      You can see who is blocked, click instances in the very bottom, there is the list.

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        1 year ago

        Ah. Very nice! I didn’t know. Lemmy rocks :)