The members here now are least likely to want a centralized instance.

The July 1st influx will be similar.

Future waves from other FU's will get progressively less techie and more likely to see federated communities as meaning that "this is STILL not ready as a drop-in replacement??".

That said, I joined reddit so long ago that people looked at me cross-eyed when I tried to explain sub-reddits. You would think that something analogous to sections of a newspaper wouldn't be THAT difficult to grasp, yet here we are with people freaking out that now it's basically just saying we have different sections of different newspapers.

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Technology section at 2 different newspapers. You might even come to appreciate being able to get 2 different slants on the same topics."

"No, you don't have to live in a city to subscribe to their newspaper. It's really not much tougher than mailing someone in another city and you do that already."

The truth is that most people, even those who have been burned repeatedly by centralization, won't appreciate that it's worth modest effort to avoid it until there is at least one very large Lemmy instance that gets its Zuck / Elon / Spez.