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Well, for non-German speaking europeans it makes sense, last time I checked .world was the only decently-sized English-speaking server in my area.
EDIT: well, apparently that’s no longer the case, good to be wrong I guess
Why does this matter? You can see everything on lemmy.world even if you come from a small instance. Size is not necessarily a benefit here.
A small instance has a higher probability of the owner stopping maintaining it. Obviously this doesn’t apply if the instance is yours, but I’m not tech-savvy enough to do that.
You actually raise a good point: People may not join a smaller instance if you're not confident it's going to hang around.
I might see if I can publish a contingency/continuity plan in our next community update.