Honestly, I would argue that it’s more of a “bug” of Lemmy than a feature because it leads to fragmentation of communities. But we will have to see how Lemmy evolves now that we reddit refugees are all here.

There is already

https://beehaw.org/c/gaming

!gaming@beehaw.org

Which seems to have the same goal. I don’t think we should start communities for every topic on every instance if we want Lemmy to succeed :)

I absolutely agree that the „Local“ button on the front page is weird. I don’t get how it’s useful and it kind of negates the „it doesn’t matter what instance you have your account at“ argument.