Skavau

That happens on Reddit even with singular communities. Sure, maybe some topics will come up multiple times.

Yeah, but Reddit has a much larger userbase and in some cases it’s good that topics can be split across multiple communities. The Fediverse has the opposite problem.

I think maybe it could be set up that closed communities could be manually hidden from search results, or defunct instances essentially completely delisted. Piefed handles this better because you can directly filter by weekly activity in the community browser.

If power-hungry mods want to discredit themselves by banning people for a single downvote and then getting bad publicity for it, and then risking the chance that a rival community is set up - draining their numbers, then so be it. I’m all for people showing us who they are in those situations.

Not the OP, but yes I personally do.