As a new reddit exile, I may be misunderstanding this.
In theory something like a !gaming community could crop up on multiple large instances, especially during the mass exodus while instances are getting hammered with spikes in volume.
If that’s the case, we’ll have fragmented communities across instances. Is there any way besides subscribing to each of them to combine them into a sort of multi-reddit type aggregation? Or is this considered a temporary (albeit important to adoption) problem during the crazy stages?
We don’t need to become reddit though, reddit is the problem. There is something about how it’s structured that encourages toxicity. I would be more concerned about keeping these communities positive and welcoming. We don’t need to make it inviting to all of reddit… I’m sure I’m not the only one that would rather see hurdles for entry than open floodgates for the kind of stuff that was making even the nicest and sanest of people into crazy assholes. My outlook has completely changed since leaving that cesspool and I’m actually horrified by how nihilistic it had made me. The world is a mess but reddit is worse.