As far as I can tell this is just an article where someone’s theorizes Musk’s plan?

https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony

This will take care of the other commenters point about having to manually subscribe to everything. I just had it pull the top 500 communities from the top two instances and I’m fine…

The problem is you lose the ability to encounter new communities by browsing “All”. And since I’m the only user on my instance I will never discover any communities that I don’t manually add or find on third-party websites not to mention that process of using those websites is cumbersome and tedious…

I added the top few thousand communities and the server runs absolutely fine. :)

These are the comments that make Lemmy great.

Absolutely. This is the time to put your support towards app developers, instance providers, and the Lemmy project itself.

It’s not surprising as the motivations are quite different. Reddit wants their app to be a shitty Facebook clone while Memmy/Lemmy focus on the user experience.

I can’t help but wonder if this would be better served at the client level. Either way I miss this feature.

Voat was a replica of Reddit in design. One centralized server. We would have ended up in the same crappy place even if that were a success because at some point they would have wanted to monetize it also.

You have to do some reading and learn about the technology behind Lemmy and federation to understand.