Shoutouts to !startrek@startrek.website for growing to 10k users on a single focused topic / community!
As far as I know, https://startrek.website is the first "small" instance to grow beyond 10k users, and that's enough to deserve a "BestOf" topic in my books.
Having a Star Trek forum that isn't run by the corporate shrills that run the reddit subreddit is always going to be popular. Did you know r/StarTrek leads all of reddit on account bans with over 1.5 million as of 2021?