Oh, you’re one of those “think of the kids” nutjobs!

Yes, that should be a user controlled thing, not an admin controlled instance wide thing.

The problem with your logic is that now you have to have multiple accounts across the “same bloody Lemmy”. That kills the whole purpose of a decentralised approach. Defederation should not be a thing at all.

Gardening on Reddit has 7.8m subs, that’s more than the whole Fediverse with all the bots.

Another issue is the quality of people. For example, I’m into kitchen knives. Dr. Larrin posts on Reddit about steels and related metallurgy. Does he post on Lemmy? No. Stroppy Stuff posts on Reddit about strops and sharpening. Does he post on Lemmy? No.

I’m also into mountain biking. Reddit is full of engineers, brand representatives and athletes, none of them is on Lemmy.

No one worth their salt gives a shit about Lemmy, that’s the hard truth. If you want to get quality hobby content - you go to Reddit.

Lemmy is for 15yo kids posting memes and US politics for those who got banned on Reddit. And for some devs to satiate their curiosity.

Normal people don’t give a shit about Lemmy. If you want to dive into hobbies, local news and other fun stuff - go to Reddit :)