This seems like unnecessary fragmentation. Reddit became huge because it gave people interested in a topic a one-stop place to discuss their topic. Putting the interested people together gave a network effect that attracted even more participants.

Creating new discussion venues (subreddits, usenet groups) is generally only worthwhile if an existing venue gets too crowded or cluttered to discuss a niche topic, or the niche topic becomes big enough that the existing venue is happier if the niche splits off. Example: there is a general programming forum, Rust gets invented and people talk about it there, then Rust becomes a big enough topic that a Rust forum is warranted.

I’m a not-even-newbie to Rust but I’d be happier if the lemmy.ml and lemmyrs.org Rust forums somehow got merged. Because of federation, I’m basically indifferent to which Lemmy instance actually hosts it.

Whoa thanks! I subbed to your two communities over there.

I like the idea of having topic-based instances, because then you can have a collection of communities dedicated to it. IE https://lemmyrs.org/c/{memes, news, support}, etc.

I don’t see a reason to migrate to another community. What guarantee is there that you don’t loose interest in hosting lemmy next week? The lemmy.ml instance is far older and I don’t think it will disappear any time soon, also the mod of this community is one of the lemmy maintainers (which is incidentally also written in rust).

This should be de-stickied. The instance appears to be receiving zero maintenance (still on 0.17.4, enough said).