I don’t think having functional, active, somewhat niche communities is the antithesis of the Fediverse’s purpose.

If we had 1M MAU, that would be different.

It’s a common complaint for many people looking to switch off reddit that niche communities are lacking and having multiple low engagement communities without any clear differentiation is confusing.

Multiple comms is a good thing, but you also need to make it easy for uses to quickly understand what the difference between two communities is.