Most of the communities are on one instance i.e .ml. Should we spin up more instances and start spreading communities either by location, interests, etc? Maybe, I am wrong but do mod/s who run the communities understand the idea of “decentralized social networks” or this is just to get few brownie points to start the community and increase the traffic? Please correct me if I am wrong.
No offence, just an observation.
Yup, it’s the first-movers advantage, which sadly is very much real in this domain…
I think the best approach is to start small and build stuff little by little, instead of trying to reach a very wide audience right away. Good publicity is also key, of course.