Good news! The linux_gaming comm has officially overtaken the .ml tankie version in Subscriber count! Sitting at 17.4k vs 17.3k and has long since been the one with way more MAUs! π₯³π
".ml has a bunch of huge comms" is nothing but a myth anyways
By MAUs, only a single .ml comm is in the top 25, doesn't even crack the top 10 and it's a meme comm
Join the boycott of the tankie instance Lemmy.ml today! So we can show instance admins of the wider Lemmy-verse that .ml does NOT reign supreme and it's NOT worth it to "look the other way" on the .ml admins documented behavior because of their supposed "biggest comms"
Probably because you need an account on the instance you want to make a comm for, though you should make an account on the target instance just for that and then add your main account as a mod to the new comm, many don't
When the initial surge of users came, they went to .world because it was the only instance that kept up with the demand. I encourage people making comms to make them on other instances.