Probably a very polarizing question.

On the one hand, having most of the users and communities on LW causes technical issues (see this post), and also gives the LW staff too much power over Lemmy as a whole.

On the other hand, with 18k MAU on LW out of 47k (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/), every community listed there has a much higher chance of visibility compared to an alternative hosted on another instance

History of LW controversial decisions

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    2 months ago

    Can confirm that when choosing a Mastodon account, .social wasn’t taking new users at the time. So I looked at the list and chose vmst.io because “Oh, I’m a nerd too.”

    I’ll say that while the number of connections is far lower, so far I haven’t noticed that as a problem in the limited capacity that I use Mastodon.