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Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down (i.imgur.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder about this as well -- because communities are tied to a specific home instance, that instance going down affects that community, potentially killing it. Something more akin to hashtags/tags/labels wouldn't be tied to an instance so they would be more robust, though you'd lose the moderation of a community and just have a firehose of posts/comments...