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?
Reddit also has a bunch of similar communities with overlapping topics. That’s not a Lemmy thing.
I prefer the Fediverse to grow organically. If that means everyone reads this thread and suddenly unanimously decides that we need to change how we organize topics across instances, so be it. But I don’t think that’ll happen, and that’s fine too.
If it can’t survive organically, then it can’t survive.