“There are really good people who are compassionate, sympathetic, empathetic, and they want to do something to help,” Gilberg said of the disaster and its aftermath. “And then there are others who … smell an opportunity to profit, and that’s what I encountered.”
IDK, maybe “cheating” was the wrong phrasing. I’m just saying I think it’s okay if people from big instances get it instantly as I post the normal promotions of it (it’s already federated to 16 instances), and small instances get to stay small and get new federated communities as their users choose to pick them up “naturally” because of their users hearing about them. Actually, I am guessing that a single post to !newcommunities@lemmy.world would get it federated to all or very close to all of the lemmy-federate places. No?
Weirdly enough, it is not federated to lemmy.world and a couple of the other big instances right now, but maybe that’s a good thing. For a lot of communities I think it might not be bad if they stay as a more niche community until a good amount of content and culture is established. For this one, I think it won’t matter as much because LW is going to do what they do regardless the instant federation is turned on, but for more conversation-based communities I could see small growth numerically working out better.