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Why have local instance under performed? Also, remedies? (lemmy.perthchat.org)
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Example; midwest.social, lemmy.ca, lemmy.perthchat.org. It seems like a no brainer that midwesters, canadian and australians would sign up at those instances respectively, but instead they end up not there.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

yeah, beyond the balkanizing of activity point this is a big one: there will be very few locals to begin with, and they'll probably want to go where discussion is, not congregate in a mostly dead instance. so it's a problem of getting a large enough group to move onto these instances to make them active, to draw further activity, etc.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

yes, but a counterpoint would be that everyone takes a while to figure out what subs they like on reddit, they move, make new accounts and whatnot. I think this is different than on twitter and mastodon, where most people just want to have 1 account and use it. So the moving of communities wouldn't be uncommon in the future I think.