Unironically, I feel like this is the way to go with the fediverse. It takes the best parts of the old internet's forums and the best part of the new internet. I hope more communities go this way instead of just being created on lemmy.ml or lemmy.world.
You can imagine the poe-discussion instance as a fediverse equivalent of the PoE forums. Each community can be imagined as the equivalent of a sub forum - general, builds, class-specific forums, etc.
This way, you have the entire PoE community under one roof/moderation team, with all the information easy to find and index. At the same time, due to it being federated, people can still browse and participate from their home instance or choice.
It's independent of bullshit that can happen in other instances, while still accessible for everyone who uses Lemmy.
Yeah that makes a lot of sense, but it also relies on one (much smaller) instance to keep existing for us to not lose everything again? Which I suppose is not free
Then I need to go to my particular instance (lemm.ee)
Then I type manually in my browser address bar lemm.ee/c/<communityname>
Then I go back to https://browse.feddit.de/ and copy the address of the original instance of the community.
Then I go back and add the original instance address to already typed thing in step 4 like this lemm.ee/c/<communityname>@<originalinstanceofcommunity>
Then I can finally subscribe!
Oh my God! Please, tell me there's a better way of doing this!
Yeah I'm relieved to see my favorite games on Lemmy, I was never a huge Reddit user in the first place but Lemmy has got me interested in the forum structure. Here's hoping we can see these spaces grow- letting people in the PoE community that there's a place here will probably help a lot.