I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that needing your comments mirrored perfectly everywhere in every community comes off as a bit:

1. Obsessive / Compulsive

2. Narcissistic

I don’t need to be involved in every conversation about the subjects I’m interested in, and I don’t need everyone in every community to see what I have to say, and having problems with things not being that way, well… It just comes off as very weirdly self-focused.

I mean, this is no different than reddit having millions of subreddits and having multiple posts of the same article in many different ones, with many different conversations.

Also, didn’t we learn any lessons from Reddit? Like making each community as big as possible means the community becomes less of a community and more of a chore? It’s asking for Eternal September to happen more quickly, by shoving everyone in the same box as fast as possible.

The fact that there’s a bunch of splintered, smaller communities is actually what I like about Lemmy.

All this work to make Lemmy “more organized” feels like it’s missing the point that communities here on Lemmy actually have the opportunity to grow organically, instead of being forced open by bots and fake engagement like on Reddit.

Does it mean the average user has to do more work for community discovery? Yes. Get used to it and stop trying to ruin a good thing by trying to make it more like the corporate removedholes we have been trying to escape.