Idk, but if that’s the case than we have a huge problem lol, because that would mean the users of each instance would tend to prefer that instance’s communities, thus helping fragmentation.
Edit: just checked from lemmy.ml, and it’s showing 15.5k for its community, and 1.62k for beehaw’s I wonder if having something like a “cross-instance counter” is something the developers have in mind
I think the idea is that in the end only one will “survive”. Technology on beehaw has almost 20k subscrubers, whilst technology@lemmy.ml has only 750 subscribers, and that’s the second biggest (unless i got this totally wrong)
I don’t know if meta or telegram cares enough about encryption to lose UK market