as of now, how much resources the server hosting an instance requires, how much perhaps if content and instances double the size? Is that a burden for other instances to have a yet another instance to sync with? if people self-hosted instances for one or a few people only would that make sense?

I’ll add for what it’s worth I’m having ‘pending’ on many communities I have tried to join some 4-7 days ago maybe, but yeah I’ll wait.

Your demonstration is not showing up on jerboa for lemmy app nor with mobile bromite browser. Everything that’s inside ()'s doesn’t show. I can see it after I click reply hmmm

edit: works now thanks:) also I swear the sidebar links at that suomi community I mentioned didn’t use that way of linking before but now the links take me to vlemmy 👀

maybe if you’re a federation citizen, but for a redditor klingon, it’s about the empire!

One thing that could help is that if a powerful search like https://browse.feddit.de/ was embedded into the community searcher or into the page where one is creating community. They would be notified and showed a community that looks similar and asked if that community is what one is looking for, similarly like on some forums when creating a new thread.

Is there something that can be done to avoid this. I think it’s not fruitful to have multiple communitiies over one topic. I have noticed seeing multiple small communities with the same or almost same name when I have searched some other things

In community’s sidebar the subscriber count varies depending from where you look at the community. For example https://vlemmy.net/c/suomi@sopuli.xyz this shows 2 subscribers, which I guess means that they have 2 subscribers at the community from vlemmy, and then https://sopuli.xyz/c/suomi says 558 subscribers. Is this 558 the amount of subscribers from sopuli.xyz only, or does that include all subscribers total from vlemmy, sopuli.xyz and all the other lemmy instances? If not, where can one see the total subscribers of a community?

Is there a way to add links to communities so that the domain part gets its data based on from where the end-user is viewing the website? For example if I view this finnish community that shows related communities on its sidebar, the links takes to their homeserver and I can’t subscribe from there https://vlemmy.net/c/suomi@sopuli.xyz

Instead the links on the sidebar should take to https://vlemmy.net/c/<community name>@<host> right?

Why are people making multiple communities with the same topic on different servers and all of them having only few users? Wouldn’t it be better that only one community is made per topic and everyone would go there? For example there are 3 star trek communities and 2 star trek the next generation communities, or there are 5 ufo/ufos communities