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Your instance only has two communities and they're both about Lemmy. Seems a bit boring to me. Sorry.
You think theyre all siloed off from each other or something? I'm literally the only user on my instance and there is 1 community with 0 posts yet here I am, on another instance.
Local communities are totally irrelevant when deciding which instance should host your account.
I thought the point was to join communities. Am I wrong?
You can join any community on any instance from any other instance, as long as the admin hasn’t blocked it.
So I don't get the problem then.
… exactly?
Someone pointed out an advantage of smaller instances and you were the one that said small instances have a problem (lack of communities), and I’m the one pointing out that your supposed problem does not, in fact, exist.
TL;DR small instance good
Okay.
Yeah it's just getting started, and you can start new communities if you like. But no point starting ones that already exists on other instances.
The amount of local communities doesn't matter much, Im subscribed to like 100 remote communities anyway. :)
But I thought multiplicity was the game.
I guess you need to do some more research on how Lemmy works.
You can follow any community from any instance. For now you could create an account at some lesser populated instances, I had one on lemmy.ml, made another account on monyet.cc. It's a minor inconvenience that you have to subscribe to communities but other than that my experience with lemmy has been very good.