I think this is the beauty of decentralization is that individual servers can still maintain smaller communities and still be part of the broader network

I’ve seen a lot of posts about how having the same community across multiple servers is a bad thing, but I disagree for this reason (and others).

Yeah I’ve ordered from them before and have never heard of any issues personally

There’s a big difference between hosting single user servers vs public servers though. If it’s just for you then you can do whatever you want with it and it can be a lot of fun (until something breaks that is)

I like how Beehaw is doing it. Slowly introducing new servers as there is demand for it.

It’s definitely a new concept for people. I’ve been on Mastodon for a while so I’m already used to the idea of multiple instances

I think over time more people will figure it out and it won’t be so confusing. Like how people intuitively understand that if you have a Gmail account you can still send emails to people on Outlook

This is not an unfounded concern but I don’t think it would be as bad as you might think.

If you’re interested in a topic, are you more likely to create a new community right away and try to grow it from nothing, or would you first seek out an existing one with quality discussion and an existing userbase first?

While yes, it’s possible there could be 100 different eu4 communities spread out across many different instances, in practice it would be difficult to sustain that many separate communities. Especially for niche topics you’d expect that when people want to connect with others they will gravitate towards the most active communities.

If anything I see it as more of an issue for broader topics like gaming since there is a much larger userbase, so it’s easier to sustain multiple separate communities spread out across many servers. Already we see this happening with gaming communities on Beehaw and Lemmy.ml. That’s not necessarily a bad thing though! Each instance will moderate differently so they can still be unique. Like maybe gaming communities on separate servers that do/don’t allow memes for example. If someone doesn’t like the vibes on lemmy.ml they can check out beehaw.

And even on Reddit it’s not too different. Think about how we have r/games and r/gaming that are both fairly large/popular. They’re both about gaming broadly but they’re a little different. Meanwhile there’s only one large eu4 subreddit.

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