I gave my input almost 3 years ago when I first joined, and I stand by it.

There should be a few general instances. These would be the big ones, where users would mostly clump. Any community would make sense here, but communities based on topics that have niche instances wouldn’t do well here, because everyone would just use the niche instances communities for those topics.

Then there would be smaller niche instances. Like I’m sure there’s SOMEONE who would join the star trek instance. Where every community is star trek themed. I don’t imagine that would be a significant percentage, but they would exist. Now, the communities would see a lot of traffic. I don’t doubt that if you consolidated all the star trek communities it would get a lot of people joining the communities. I just don’t think most people would feel the need to make that their home instance.

And star trek is just one example. You could have a sports instance. A movies instance. A tv instance. An art instance. An instance that’s just geographical locations instance. But most people would join the communities, not the instance.

That way, when people use the “local” tab, it’s a bit more diverse.