I had experience with mastodon several years ago and so when I moved over here from Reddit I was excited to try and find an instance that resonated with me but alas, the only niche ones are like, furry instances, porn instances, and tech instances. Bummed that there haven’t been more that have themes.
Comment on Would there be interest and support in potentially building an art focused lemmy instance?
gabe@literature.cafe 10 months agoAn instance dedicated to art and art focused things would help spread the federation out. It’s really not a good idea to put everything on one instance. It’s a thing that occurs on the fediverse, outside of specific instances there are niche and hobby focused instances that attract a lot of people. Everyone is just crowding all their communities into the general purpose instances and that’s not really how the fediverse is intended to work.
ratboy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
gabe@literature.cafe 10 months ago
That’s exactly why I’m asking, to maybe make a new one with a new theme :)
wrath-sedan@kbin.social 10 months ago
Yeah I’ve really loved the culture of niche instances like startrek.website, lebowski.social, sffa.alliance. I think they provide an interesting and friendly local feed, have a more general federated feed, and then of course you can have your own subs. I say go for it!