I get the idea of instances, like you can make your own and this is good for privacy. But some lemmy instances are much more popular and this in fact makes it another Reddit. If there are separate instances for niche topics, why not make it another community inside a larger instance?
Some people want instances which align with them ideologically
Lol I joined for the piracy, then I see the sidebar linking the Anarchist Code of Conduct and I just felt so… liberating.
We know who are those vocal crazy minorities, don’t we
Except it’s not a minority? Maybe you didn’t shop around for an instance, but most fediverse users do.
I’d think that most OG lemmy users were people like that, so it’s not “small”