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There are some good reasons to do it. You can basically recreate the classic forum experience. Say you want to make an all purposes Blades in the Dark community. You could just make
/c/bladesinthedark
in your favourite instance, but you could also makemybladesinthedark.org/c/generaldiscussion
,/c/characterart
,/c/gamestories
,/c/playbypost
, even/c/offtopic
, and restrict the creation of new communities to mods, or to admins with an@mybladesinthedark.org
account, or something like that. Maybemybladesinthedark.org
is owned by the company that publishes bitd, allowing them to create a series of "official" communities linked under the lemmy network but still locally managed.IMO this is a pretty powerful tool, and while I don't think it should be the standard, it definitely does ad d cool value that competitors lack.
I get your point, but you could get the same effect with c/subject_subsubject. I guess it's to the people to decide.
One point against creating a brand new instance i think is that u might miss a lot of good content from other subLems at other instances that exist before someone from your instance sub to that subLem. But it's a pros and cons game like everything in life.