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I like it so far. However, I do have some questions.
I think the only really option is to let things play out. This was/is a problem on Reddit see r/gaming vs r/games. Overtime certain communities on certain instances will float to the top.
This still needs some work. It would be nice if you were able to search communities by instance or look just see the hot/active page of a different instance to help with discoverablility. These may be possible but I haven't found how to.
Reddit had similar problems with finding subs - it was sometimes really difficult. But, honestly that was sometimes my favourite part. You'd randomly stumble upon a sub that you've never heard of that's super active.
I think there should be a way to easily find communities, but there's something fun about discovering a community out of nowhere.
The nice thing about Reddit being super centralized was that you could just append "reddit" to a Google search and find a community for anything under the sun. The distributed nature of lemmy makes it a little harder, but dedicated search indexes are already popping up and I'm sure they'll incorporate that kinda stuff back into the main lemmy instances sooner or later.