“Magazine” implies little if any input from readers (letters to the editor being the exception). It doesn’t sound very interactive.

That’s why I’m asking about this. What am I missing here that’s supposed to be making it difficult?

This can be alleviated a bit. If one person searches for an other-instance community by URL, it will become available for all other users through a normal search. So over time this becomes less of an issue, particularly if someone takes out some time to seed a bunch of these for their instance.

• nuclear fusion power
• male birth control
• Metroid Prime 4
• native accessibility features for Reddit

The lesson from GeoCities, MySpace, Yahoo Groups, etc. and now Reddit is that you can’t depend on a large corporation to host your content indefinitely.

I tried to look up Tumblr’s present and past Alexa rankings, but it turns out that Alexa was closed last year.

My hope is that federation will be a good solution to these issues. Users can choose a home instance based on the types of content they do or don’t want to see. Instances with conflicting focuses or policies can defederate from one another.

My hope is that this is a shift back to a more decentralized internet.

They’ve officially branched out to Lemmy: !debatereligion@lemmy.world