The fanbase is still large, but the Lemmy community hasn’t quite caught up yet, and now there is a transitional period where the audience is smaller.

  • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is true, but there are good reasons it’s shaking out this way:

    • Lemmy.world has had some of the most open signups compared to other major instances

    • Discovery of communities across instances is a little harder, specifically natural discovery instead of directly searching

    • It is easier to just tell incoming users to sign on to the instance your community is hosted on because you know it’s safe and they won’t ever be locked out by defederation

    I think the rise of more topic-specfiic instances like ttrpg.network will help spread the load out.