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Each lemmy Server should've been it's own subreddit.
Definitely not.
For every individual community you would have to pay for a domain, maintain the instance, keep it updated, keeping it secure, and keeping it paid. That's really difficult already with a single server, let alone multiple for multiple servers and domains. These are also more points where data from other servers can be cached and get hacked/leaked or outright incompatible Lemmy versions.
It'd also still have the problem of multiple communities with the same topic, so it's not solving anything.
How do you expect people to migrate to Lemmy if these are the ridiculous hoops they're expected to do to start a community. Instead, they can just go to reddit and click a "create subreddit" button instead. What option do you think they'd choose?
Well, can't you just go to a Lemmy server and click "create community"?
Yes, they're saying they'd rather get rid of that and have the entire Lemmy server be dedicated to one community.
How do you expect people to migrate to lemmy when you have the five thousand people split amongst ten servers with world news
That's the beauty of decentralization and should be encouraged that way. Those are two different problems though. The issue of different servers with the same community topics is being figured out right now, the devs have a couple different ideas on how they're tackling that. The other issue is onboarding, so finding a server and signing up is much simpler and streamlined. These are both issues that can be greatly improved upon.
I've had that thought too- it would guarantee instance owners are dedicated to making one community as awesome as they can, but at the same time the current structure means non-technically inclined people are able to have a home off-Reddit as long as their values align with the instance owner.
That said, Startrek.website is kinda doing a focused-topic thing with different communities and rules within to achieve different goals working with the same subject matter. I think it could serve as a good model for themed instances.
It still could
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