I kind of expected some people to start instances for mostly just making accounts (some of which I have seen), and for other people to make instances just for community hosting and disallow account creation (and afaik this hasn't been done to any appreciable degree). I'm not sure this is even possible or functionally useful with the way lemmy currently works for community creation and stuff, so maybe that's why it didn't happen.

Honestly I even expected some instances to pop up with the sole intent and purpose of serving one community, but even stuff like the startrek instance have account creation available.

Maybe it's because lemmy is so new for people. Niche instances would rather host accounts than scare users away in an effort to get them to sign up elsewhere.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't remotely make communities.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that would explain why there isn't a general use community only instance. Honestly that feels like a feature that should exist, while still leaving "local only" as an instance setting for people who like it that way.

Still seems odd for instances with a specific set of premade communities with new ones disabled to worry about hosting accounts, like the startrek one.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 points 1 year ago

I think the idea is to force people to spread out across instances and support the instance they're creating communities on.

[–] Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net 1 points 1 year ago

People are looking for an easy access server for lemmy, they search for it and because of SEO the most popular servers are the ones they see.