you've mistaken the forest for the trees

The Fediverse principle is not to be the next big thing. Just wants to be a functional series of communities.

That’s it. Decentralization is not only important, but critical to avoid a lot of shortfalls now common in bigger corporate socials.

Lemmy is not Reddit and I'm so glad it's not. It's nowhere near as buggy for a start, and if an instance has issues you can just hop on to and browse another one instead of the whole fediverse and communities being inaccessible like on Reddit. Reddit was one of the most buggy things I'd ever used and I lost count the amount of times I had to close the app and reopen it again because profiles or posts would not load.

And another fantastic thing I just found out: karma has almost no meaning here!!! Not like on Reddit where a low enough karma could get your account in trouble and stop your posts and comments being seen. Here on Lemmy you can continue to have actual discussions without anything stupid like that getting in the way. People can contribute from day one without fear of shadowbans!!

So whatever problems Lemmy and the fediverse may have, I will take it any day over the buggy and karma obsessed cesspit that Reddit has become. Reddit used to be a place for disscussion when I joined there 5 years ago, now it's just a collection of data harvesting echo chambers.

Lemmy is what Reddit used to be.

You can't see the offending comments on piefed/Pylova modlogs OP, but you can on Lemmy:

Is there a way to join two communities into one?

Piefed has a feature to combine posts from multiple communities into feeds, but otherwise community consolidation consists of a moderator restricting one community to mod posts only and using a pinned post to redirect users to another.