One of the things that I will be adding soon is the ability to request a community to be created. For subreddits which there is no equivalent community, people will be able to fill a form (similar to the “Create Community” page on Lemmy’s default client) which will check what is the best participating instance in the network, and if the instance admins approve, the instance can be created right away.
Who do you imagine would create the majority of these requests?
How would the “best participating instance” be determined?
How long would this process take?
We’ve deliberated for several days on the “best instance” for a community, and getting instance admin approval can also take time in some cases. This seems to be at odds with the “right away” goal.
Even if a community is created, it needs people to grow it, making posts and contributing to discussion. Creating new communities is not the challenge. Growing them is.