Yeah, good point about instances being communities! It’s like how the Star Trek one did it and my mind boggled when I realized you could (and someone has done so) make a national Lemmy _instance_ rather than just a /r/mycountry. And then everything there is localized! So you basically have a social news _site_ in your language that can federate with all the rest.

Of course, this goes for any major interest category but it just hit me the hardest so far to realize this.

Another cool development would be a science-oriented Lemmy instance with lots of special purpose sciency stuff.

Viewed like this, the sky is the limit for Lemmy and it could have potential to grow a lot!