Example; midwest.social, lemmy.ca, lemmy.perthchat.org. It seems like a no brainer that midwesters, canadian and australians would sign up at those instances respectively, but instead they end up not there.

  • @sexy_peachA
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    102 years ago

    nobody knows about lemmy and even fewer people know about the small servers ^^

    • alyaza [they/she]M
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      2 years ago

      yeah, beyond the balkanizing of activity point this is a big one: there will be very few locals to begin with, and they’ll probably want to go where discussion is, not congregate in a mostly dead instance. so it’s a problem of getting a large enough group to move onto these instances to make them active, to draw further activity, etc.

      • @sexy_peachA
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        52 years ago

        yes, but a counterpoint would be that everyone takes a while to figure out what subs they like on reddit, they move, make new accounts and whatnot. I think this is different than on twitter and mastodon, where most people just want to have 1 account and use it. So the moving of communities wouldn’t be uncommon in the future I think.