this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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Unfortunately I think that bed has been shat, because everyone wants to be a general purpose instance. Nobody wants to be sportslemmy or musiclemmy or movielemmy where they only host communities that match their theme, which is why we have linux@lemmy.world, linux@lemmy.ml, linux@sh.itjust.works, linux@feddit.org...
So "Join an instance for a community you're interested in"...not sure if that's tenable on Mastodon but it sure ain't on Lemmy.
I think we're just kinda early. Having redundant communities is good for resiliency.
Honestly you could pick 3 and tell people "these are all fine choices, pick one at random"