Most of the communities are on one instance i.e .ml. Should we spin up more instances and start spreading communities either by location, interests, etc? Maybe, I am wrong but do mod/s who run the communities understand the idea of “decentralized social networks” or this is just to get few brownie points to start the community and increase the traffic? Please correct me if I am wrong.
No offence, just an observation.
Its very natural for fediverse projects to have a few of the starting instances dominate, at least at the beginning. Its not necessarily that hosting requirements are heavy, its just that beta software under rapid development needs frequent updates.
This is the instance run by us devs, and we can’t do more than encourage people to start their own instances, and for others to federate with them. There are no ads on lemmy, so we don’t gain anything by having more users. More traffic on this instance is actually detrimental to us, because it gives us more moderation work, whereas we’d prefer to do development.
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Maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea to find a few other instances, and promote them and/or some of their communities on your project site? It might be a good small step towards helping people discover other places to sign up or connect with.
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An instance picker is good, but I was more talking about highlighting a handful of good ones with decent reputation and maybe a few unique communities that belong to each one.
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After Holidays, will try to spin something :))