I’ve held the view for a long time that instances that are an outgrowth of extant communities are ideal, because they’re going to have their own ideas about how to run things coming out the gate, and they’re going to be coherent to those people if nobody else. The fediverse is truly an exercise in local governance online in this respect.
@NEETzsche and @ArneBab sure, but I wonder how many users are in that position, with such established communities to follow.
Twitter-type users have always struck me as particularly lacking in community. From the way they talk, the whole world is their community... which is to say, they have no community :)
And I see SO MANY people here echoing the same perspective, referring to the whole Fediverse as their community.
Yeah, instances reflecting communities sounds like a nice ideal to me, but I don't think that experience is the norm among users.
Those people should either join one of those megainstances like maston.social or poa.st or whatever, or start a single user instance.