Fediverse

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:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

... 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.