This can be alleviated a bit. If one person searches for an other-instance community by URL, it will become available for all other users through a normal search. So over time this becomes less of an issue, particularly if someone takes out some time to seed a bunch of these for their instance.
The lesson from GeoCities, MySpace, Yahoo Groups, etc. and now Reddit is that you can’t depend on a large corporation to host your content indefinitely.
I haven’t seen this one publicized on the fediverse yet. It will be interesting to see how this one plays out, assuming the mods get enough time to find their own replacements.
I don’t understand people who say they can’t figure out Lemmy or KBin (kbin.fedi.cr) en
Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt....
Why Reddit and u/spez must win (fedia.io) en
Seeing a lot of hate and schadenfreude over spez and what he's doing with Reddit....
r/AskMen mods told to reopen or be demodded, most opt to leave on their own (troddit.com) en
I haven’t seen this one publicized on the fediverse yet. It will be interesting to see how this one plays out, assuming the mods get enough time to find their own replacements.