There is no reason why they have to be fully separate domains in the same branch. You can set up a system of fully independent moderation and extreme levels of customization while having them all on one site with a front page that allows everyone to see whats popular.

A front page wouldn't prevent individual subgroups from requiring approval to join, it wouldn't prevent subgroups from banning those it doesn't want. It doesn't prevent users from blocking subgroups that it doesn't want to see on the front page.

What would be most useful is that now someone could create an account on the Reddit, Twitter, Facebook(?) alternatives and give them access to every community, and then allow each community to set its own rules, and customize its own to be unique while having a unified product to "sell" and get people to move.

Hot take? Blue Sky should be worked with to join the Fediverse as the twitter alternative and Mastodon should work to be the Facebook alternative

TLDR: One front page and general site for Lemmy, Mastodon....and to sign up and see whats popular and then have fully independent subgroups.

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[–] Hanz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

I never understand people comparing Mastodon to Facebook, it feels more like a proper modern evolution of what Twitter used to be than of Facebook, you can't have communities on Mastodon which is a key thing Facebook has that Orkut also had which when it closed down there was a huge exodus to Facebook, not to say it's like wow so important but they both also had integrated games be that Flash games or Unity Web (no longer a thing either of the two but Flash games can be played safely through emulation with Ruffle (which is open-source) and not enough games yet but there's ongoing QoL development for web game export with Godot) again games are not that important and communities feature is a huge thing, people using fediverse thinking who wants communities will join forumverse platforms like Lemmy is not being realistic with your target audience if you want to keep talking about exodus of all kind of people to fediverse platforms, there are a lot of people who barely understand what domains or directories are