No, it’s because the word was used wrongly in a completely unrelated context where it doesn’t make any sense

They don’t, clearly

They became gay, of course

There are a few technical problems with that. First of all, the cost of each instance would become quickly unbearable since everyone has all the duplicated data.

Second problem, a malign entity could just come, create its own instance, spam everything and everyone with ads or whatever and suddenly every instance is full of that stuff. Also, how do you handle defederating in that case?

What has been proposed before instead was to make some kind of mega communities that gather all posts from communities with the same name across instances

Depends on how the code was written, it can vary between “a few days of work” and “it’s easier to write a new one”

I would say I wouldn’t go back.

But realistically if no alternative becomes big enough, eventually with time people will start going back, and so would I.

I mainly used reddit for specific things and not much as a general time waster, so in the long term I’ll have no choice if it stays as the main community for those things