“Heavier than any other creature, including the dinosaurs”… this author doesn’t seem to know that blue whales are heavier than any of the dinosaurs.

I really want to see a data viz of whether/how much users are spreading out. Anyone got the data on user counts over time by instance?

It’s true that several instances (the ones hosted in Mali?) closed, but I think you’re premature in saying the smaller instances are disappearing, Lemmy.one included.

Sure, they’re bound to crash or go down for maintenance from time to time, but that doesn’t mean they’re finished. So far my experience has been that if you give it a couple days they’ll be back. Keep in mind these are shoestring operations and sometimes seeing major influxes of users.

I think they basically have built up a tolerance to those bacteria. They probably got sick at some point and survived.

Linked in a comment within that post, this appears to be an extremely comprehensive list:

https://kbin.social/m/specialized_instances/t/186667/Big-list-of-specialized-instances

Really love Mander

That’s not the only way. Smaller instances will have very different All feeds because All is just an aggregate of your Instance-mates.

Reality has a known liberal bias

Yeah the All feed shows you the communities that you and all your instance-mates follow, but not every community in existence.

I think a good strategy is to start on Lemmy.World until you discover a solid list of communities you want to follow. Then switch to a smaller instance that aligns with your interests and bring all your subscriptions with you.

If you start on a small instance you’ll have to do a lot more work to discover communities, since they mostly won’t appear in your All feed. Plus, you’re doing that small instance a favor by bringing interesting communities to their All feed.

Well yeah. I guess my question should be “why do we learn indigo and violet when we learn about the rainbow”. It’s more cultural