Oh, good point. I'd been browsing local more here & other Lemmy instances, so forgot it does indicate the origin instance.

Generally I agree with the inclination towards more focused/topical servers, so then the sub-communities almost naturally set themselves apart as they focus on more specifics, e.g. Tech instance and sub-communities for specific types of hardware, software, etc. That said, I'd also appreciate better account portability, and UI.

General instances are kind of an odd thing for federated sites tbh, but they make sense as a sort of reception area/lobby for the rest of the space. Come to think of it, an interesting (if impractical) idea that may work better for this style (forum/link aggregator) may be the possibility of remote community creation, e.g. person from lemmy.world being able to create a community in a hypothetical tech.lemmy. Although that would necessitate a whole host of improved permissions to ensure folks can't mess with each other.