If the ideal setup is many medium sized instances rather than a few huge ones, wouldn't that mean users would need to subscribe to duplicate communities in all of those instances? (sh.itjust.works)

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Otherwise, if we have a lot of medium sized instances but the most popular communities are hosted on just a few huge instances, doesn't that defeat the purpose of distributing load across many instances?

If that's the case, how do we solve the cumbersome user experience of having to subscribe to the same community over and over again across a ton of medium instances?

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[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago

This stuff tends to come out in the wash. Yeah, there are duplicates, but that was true on reddit too. And just like on reddit, people will settle on one or two communities, and the people that don't like those big communities will stick to the smaller niche ones.

[-] ren@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yep.

Not sure why people struggle with this. On Reddit you have aww, but you can also have awww, awwww, aww1, awwpets, awwwpet, and so on.

People tend to pick the bigger ones some go for niche ones, whatever.

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