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

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I have a lemmy ml community but it only has 227 subs so its currently not worth moving.

    I would have thought that a smaller community would be easier to move, as there would be less inertia and inconvenience. I’ve deliberately created some communities on smaller servers and cross-posted to more general communities on larger servers to help with visibilty.