Gregory's Server@Crell @kissane Well following people on other servers is sort of the point, so I don't think this is really a criticism.
Problem is, interest-based servers are needlessly restrictive as people have many interests, not many people are defined solely by one interest.
Other than wanting specific moderation or a sort of broad community (LGBT or PoC, for example), I think the best type of instance is regional. I was on the UK instance for a bit and it was enjoyable actually seeing local stuff.
@mattswift @kissane That's my point, yes. If I want to follow "space stuff", there's no reason I must be on space-stuff.social or whatever. Aside from the issue of setting up cross server follows, which are just a flat out bug to fix. So space-stuff.social doesn't really need to exist.