EDIT: Thank you all for your answers, now I'm reassured this platform is in good hands and we will always have the freedom to switch. Let's make this place vibrant, diverse and decentralized, like the old web used to be.

I feel like this instance is getting too big and all the content is being centralized here. Am I right or there are other instances thriving too?

Wherever I go I keep seeing lots of lemmy.world users and communities and kind of feel worried about centralization.

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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It doesn't help that most instances are named/marketed as being for a specific subset of people. Like French, Canadian, LGBTQ, NSFW, US midwest, etc etc. Lemmy.world is generic enough to appeal to most new users.

you have Lemmy saying, "join anywhere!", but then all the instances are like "only join here if you are X, Y, or Z!". It is understandably confusing for new people.

[–] CodingAndCoffee@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Such things are only relevant for "local" content.

We need some regional americas instances, and more topical nodes like !startrek@startrek.website running their own whole instance.