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It's not the World is big...
It's just everyone else is so small.
Like in the grand scheme of the fediverse we're all tiny. But of the "reddit clone" instances it might be bigger than everyone else put together even.
I went over to your instance and checked, and yeah, it's a reddit clone interface too
The structure makes all of us "like reddit" because reddit has always had a shit ton of different small subs with vastly different vibes. A decade ago there was some sub on Reddit that had the exact same vibe your instance has today. That's just how big reddit was.
Federation just means no one group of admins can seize control, even if World went to shit tomorrow, everyone would just bounce. I have zero "loyalty" to my instance, if it starts to suck I'm out.
That's the point of this whole thing.
I just counted some of this in another comment here on this thread "they" being Lemmy.world:
Also, due to how "packets" of data are sent, many smaller instances (like Aussie.zone) have like 7-day delays getting all the data from Lemmy.world, sent at a rate of no more than one action per second (a future Lemmy software update should help with this substantially). I'm not kidding about any of this btw - see e.g. discussion at https://feddit.org/post/3524876.
Edit: I just realized I didn't respond to your "reddit clone” part. Honestly, unless you start talking like Mbin or Piefed or something, that's just Lemmy. I cannot really think of a single counterexample, not really - we all are on "link aggregators", and most of us further are on "general purpose" ones. For that one I can at least think of several counterexamples: as you mentioned, some instances such as programming.dev, StarTrek.website, mander.xyz, aussie.zone, lemmy.ca - all those have a "theme", but those too still allow general purpose usage, and still are forum-like. Then again, they can each have multiple communities, like mander.xyz is science but there are many individual communities underneath that heading. Which is a bit different from Reddit, having only just "subs"?
Also, people on mander.xyz could block everyone from let's say lemmy.ml and/or lemmy.world, if they wanted to. Reddit definitely did not allow that - if you wanted to make a block list, then you had to do it the old fashioned way, one by one!:-)