@ono perfect, for some reason all I could see was what was on the front page.

I suggest that you don’t worry very much about how many people read your posts, especially in early days. I’ve seen people super stressed about how they can’t make their posts on Mastodon go viral enough. The scale here will be smaller.

Of course in a magical world all the different basically the same magazines on different instances would get merged seamlessly in the UI with posts all somehow connected.

In the real world I can’t even conceptualize how you could handle moderation (or a random collection of posts vanishing from a thread) with instances that have different rules unless each magazine for different topics was a separate silo.

The natural outcome, without much active effort, seems likely to be that niche stuff is consolidated on a single instance that members aren’t necessarily on in order to have enough participation while popular stuff truly just gets silo’d into different self-sustaining groups that talk about the same stuff but with different culture developed, different moderators, and a different instance.

Is there another way? We’re assuming each one is self-sustaining, it will be good enough or you’ll find one on a different instance…

I expect people will see there’s existing local magazines for a bunch of things, and then to search out magazines for niche interests.