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I get it but I worry it'll limit the success of Lemmy. Reddit's drawcard was finding THE sub for a topic, if the same discussion is fractured across many different indistinguishable ones it'll be like a bunch of random small chat groups which is something that already exists. Also means that maybe you'll be subbed to the "fediverse" sub that sucks and not realise there's a more established one you don't know about.
When I moved to Korea 3 years ago then I found r/korea and after a year or something I've been banned from posting and commenting there after my 2nd post because of some technicality (posted a link to my a video on my own peertube instance instead of a 3rd party like YouTube). A later found out there was a r/living-in-korea one which anyway fit much better and I was able to post and comment there.
So in my mind having several is much better than having one.
What would be nice is some UI to group and view them together as a user though.
the activity pub protocol is the thing that will limit the success of lemmy