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.
At some point I’ll probably spin up a self-hosted instance, and rebase my operations there. In the meantime the fediverse needs content and users to reach a critical mass.
Over time I expect instances will grow and segment into more focused, specialized instances. Federation will keep things accessible so you might not need to follow. Communities of interest will grow around the instances that best reflect the spirit of that community.
Some splits will be amicable, some acrimonious, some out of necessity, others out if principle. Most will probably be because that’s just where the content ends up.
Give it time. Nobody knows how this is all gonna work at scale, but at least we’re doing it.