Thanks everyone for the help.
Original post: I want to create a niche community, but considering Lemmy can’t see kbin magazines, wouldn’t it make more sense to make the community on Lemmy, that way people from both Lemmy and kbin can be a part if it?
Maybe I should have posted this on a nostupidquestions community, I don’t know.
It honestly depends on how centralized you want to be. Do we want all communities on the largest lemmy instance or do we want them on many different instances, some of which are kbin? Suppose there’s a security hole in Lemmy code that needs to be updated. It’d be good for some of the communities to be on Kbin while that’s being fixed, and vice versa.
But really, kbin and lemmy have small but essential differences. I adore the kbin integration with Mastodon and it’s hashtags, so I’m going to prefer a kbin server with that for any communities I make. They can still be found. They can still hit the front page if they get a good thread going. They still show up in the newest feed.
Lemmy.world recent incident was a great demonstration of the benefit there is to spreading what instances communities are created on. There was some grumbling about /r/Android coming and making their own instance and then lemmy.world/c/Android merging with them there, but turns out it’s good to not have all the eggs in one basket.