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.

  • @_ed
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    Discovery is a problem. I think the fact there are 50 million 1-post communities in the ALL list (mostly on lemmy.ml) is not helpful. One thing I think beehaw does well is to limit the amount of communities and focus discussion.

    • @_ed
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      92 years ago

      Having a list of related/like minded communities as a separate sidebar might be useful. I’ve listed related communities in my https://sopuli.xyz/c/classicalbums community about area, but it feels a little adhoc

    • alyaza [they/she]M
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      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.

  • @graphito@beehaw.org
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    Discovery of the instances is problematic. There’s no clear way to find them other than know they exist. Jerboa app don’t offer them either.

  • Inkie
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    Having just started exploring the world of federated community sites (I refuse to call it ‘fediverse’ because it sounds like the universe of feds, or something even worse in my language–) I do feel that like, seeing stuff from other instances in Mastodon comes a lot more naturally than it does on Lemmy. It does seem I only see posts/communities not in my native instance if I go deliberately seek them out. So there might be a structure issue that could be remedied either on that level or by user actions… ?

    Though that might be a wrong impression from a noob. It wouldn’t surprise me too much :P