Pretty straight question.
I see Lemm.ee is now the second most populated instance based on https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list, with 3634 monthly active users.
I also know that Lemmy devs said that
lemmy.ml is bigger than beehaw, and only costs 80 euros per month for a dedicated server.
https://lemmy.ml/comment/2372503
As lemmy.ml has 3561 monthly active users, should we consider that around 3,5k-4k users is the sweet spot for an instance population, and stop recommending the ones that reached that threshold?
I’ve created selfhosted.forum some days before the reddit blackout, and I wanted to give it to the mods of /r/selfhosted. They still went on to use the /c/ from LW.
A community of people focused on self-hosting was not interested in running their own instance. The irony was too much.