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the users will organically migrate to the most popular sublemmy over time & the rest will close or be ignored.
I sure hope not. It does seem to be leaning that way, but it would sort of defeat the purpose of decentralization right? I guess you can’t change the course of the river. I started a small instance with a focus on gardening, and it’s growing slowly. I wonder if smaller instances would grow more evenly if they were focused on regions/ countries/ cities or with a focus on topics? Either way it’s interesting! We’re just getting started here. Things are going to change. I wonder what we’ll say a year from now.
I have nothing to contribute to the actual conversation, I just wanted to point out the way you worded that your "gardening instance is growing slowly" was funny.
I think communities will naturally move to larger subsbutt as soon as a controversial choice is made by the mods it will split off again.
Its also important to note that all the biggest subs shouldn't be on the same instance
Humans tend to congregate so this behaviour is reflected in the online world.