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The issue is this instance seems to be the largest, with many established subreddit on it. Now people will have to split between multiple clones on other instan

• SamoyedFurFluff 3y ago
  I can understand de-federating until people have settled in, earnestly!
• zhte415 3y ago
  I see it as healthy. Just as there is no simultaneous conversation about, say, walnuts in offline life, so there are multiple communities that discuss walnuts on boards with all the predicates and social constructs those communities have, from focuses towards, say, farming to environment to cooking, objective focuses, or social focuses in belief, location, language, of community. And no one's prevented from starting their own walnut focused board or even community. That Lemmys are choosing to not try to be super catch-alls from the start I see as healthy for communities. For search/discoverability, multiple boards each dedicated to walnuts may not aid discovery, especially in tails where signal is strong, perhaps oldskool directories/newskool directory of search/filtering could start to come in useful.
• forevernoob 3y ago
  Wait, isn't one of the benefits of such federation that (the equivalent of) subreddits _don't_ live on one specific instance? So if an instance goes down for whatever reason, that subreddit still maintains its existence since it's shared across other instances.