Instance getting too centralized?

https://lemmy.world/post/197496

Instance getting too centralized? - Lemmy.world

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.

I don't think anyone can tell where we're going. Mastodon.social was the largest instance by far for some time, then at the deluge, it splintered.

Part of the reason for Mastodon to fracture is specialization - each instance does something unique. Maybe Lemmy will do the same, maybe not.

But if we end up with 3 primary instances, it's still decentralized - I think the most useful feature of Lemmy isn't that we're spread out, it's that we could be.

Yeah a lot of Lemmy instances right now are mostly based on country or language, so.tnrte is some making use of the decentralisation. I'm hoping an art instance would pop up, then I might migrate.
An art instance is a brave move. Lemmy takes up a lot of disk space already, but encouraging images means a lot more disk space. Lemmy also allows multiple images per post.