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why does lemmy world do anything?
it's a very unstable instance. I recommend migrating away from it.
You can move your account somewhere else, but if you're subscribed to... say... [email protected] then even though you're on another instance, you'd still be trying to fetch and read content from lemmy.world. If lemmy.world were to go down, then the only content you would see on that /c/ would be from other people on sh.itjust.works and never any of the comments from lemmy.ee or lemmy.ca - who would also have similar problems of isolation of comments.
Lemmy.world going down would mean that the tens of thousands of people who subscribe to /c's hosted on there would be isolated from each other.
Moving user accounts isn't sufficient. Moving a /c to another instance is a significant undertaking of trying to get people to do it.
So create more technology communities on different instances? We have the technology for it now.
[email protected]
I created this one today because we need more, and we need to spread out. If you don't want to join lemmy.today, start a community on your own instance. But spread out.
I am on an instance that has the finer granularity of the technology topics and the corresponding subscribers to make the posts and comments interesting.
Small, general topic instances means that now I've got a dozen copies of the same post scattered through my feed with only a few people on each talking to each other.
Spreading out is ok... but spreading out too far makes people more isolated and content even harder to discover. Why should I subscribe to that instance rather than:
... or any of the next 20 /c that show up that have less than a dozen people subscribed.
I also don't want to have to wade through a score of posts that Bram Moolenaar died in my feed. One or two will do (one in a general technology /c/ that I subscribe to one in [email protected] ).
What is the value proposition of another /c/technology on a small, general interest instance?
It's ok to do it... but I am only subscribed to one because there's a sufficiently large subscriber count and they're active about moderating. If there was another techlemmy instance that was able to develop a sufficient community of people around the /c/ hosted there, I'd be interested... but subscribing to every instance that is spread out is more clutter in my subscribed section than I want to deal with.
I understand. Well we will se how it goes :)