If my home instance is lemmy.ca, and I want to create and moderate a community about, say, Japanese woodworking (random example of a subreddit I follow), isn’t it a bit odd for that community to be hosted by lemmy.ca? If somebody else later created a community of the same name on lemmy.ml or lemmy.jp, would people be more likely to join those communities as they seem more “official”?
On one hand, joining multiple instances just for “better” vanity URLs for new communities seems wrong (and annoying to manage), on the other hand it’s odd that I’d arbitrarily impose the traffic associated with a community completely unrelated to Canada onto lemmy.ca. How is this supposed to work?
Say I was looking for a community like yours. Since yours is the first one I will likely see much more activity on it and skip the one with 0 if it was created afterwards just for the vanity url.
Since lemmy.ca says it’s not restricted to non-Canadian topics and welcomes all, I see nothing wrong if you create it there. Also, if the content isn’t images uploaded through Lemmy, I wouldn’t worry about taking up resources, as storage space seems to be the limiting resource, not traffic (in the form of bandwidth or CPU time).