Otherwise, if we have a lot of medium sized instances but the most popular communities are hosted on just a few huge instances, doesn’t that defeat the purpose of distributing load across many instances?
If that’s the case, how do we solve the cumbersome user experience of having to subscribe to the same community over and over again across a ton of medium instances?
I bet some people would create a website which shows similar communities grouped together so it’s easier to find them. There’s already something like that which shows alternatives to the subreddits from reddit which helped moving to Lemmy (forgot the name unfortunately).
I think it’s sub.rehab.