Same as many instances: too few users with too much responsibility on one administrator. It eventually made more sense to have a film community rather than a film instance.
Too much centralization of the Lemmy network happened. A big default choice instance, some others that are medium sized, and several hundreds of tiny instances nobody cares about.
It does make more sense to have a community for an interest too, rather than an entire instance devoted to one area.
I guess it works for porn instances but haven't seen it work for any others. Porn is good for having alt accounts.
Ttrpg.network seems to work well. As does the Star Trek one, even despite serious problems with some of their communities' moderators that the admins have failed to take action on.
I think it's a format that can make sense especially if there's a broad range of specific communities around a central topic. Like ttrpg.network can have communities dedicated to each RPG, one for memes, for art, for broader conversation about the hobby, etc. It means you know if you want something RPG-related, that's the instance to look for.
In a way, you could even say all the various country instances, including my own home insurance, are doing the same thing. What is a country instance if not "entire instance devoted to one area"?
I think it’s a format that can make sense especially if there’s a broad range of specific communities around a central topic...
I think that's how lemmy got started: It's like reddit's leftist subs like r/communism; r/socialism & r/anarchy created the lemmyverse and the idealogical clash with reddit's refugee & moonlighting users seems to induce centralization for those users into a few heavily centralized instances that cannibalizes smaller instances that were created to be alternatives to the ones made by leftists; hence the deactivation of instances like lemmy.film and the multitudes of mostly inactive duplicate communities.
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