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?

  • Taako_Tuesday
    6·
    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t be surprised if we start to see instances that are dedicated to individual subs/niche topics as things become more spread out. As the user base grows, it’s just not realistic for a handful of instances to host virtually every popular sub across all of lemmy (or all of the fediverse that’s visible from lemmy).

    • pkulak@beehaw.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      That’s what Mastadon does. I’m on a very specific server, and I mostly follow folks on that server. But I can still follow anyone, of course.

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.