I have to admit, without this community i probably would have given up on this fediverse when i first moved from reddit few weeks ago.
Also on another note, it's very hard to shake off some habits from reddit. I had to really force myself to not wipe out this comment because that's what I'm used to. And i almost wrote about sub instead of community lol
To be honest, I found it annoying at first. But I didn't really "get it" either. Now that I've seen a few more posts it doesn't seem vastly different than a lot of the subreddit cultures that were out there and commonplace.
Not the worst community to have flooded on my Frontpage. Beats having all the German posts in the evening, or the people who can't stop talking about reddit mid day.
The issue has more to do with the fact of how the front page works, how disproportionately fed communities are growing, and how unintuitive the default settings are for most users on lemmy and kbin. You can get these sites to function like reddit, but it takes quite a bit of tinkering, and most users are not going to understand what is happening, and complain instead.