Never good to intentionally pollute.

Usenet or Fidonet would be a more apt comparison

yeah, communities should have subject tag sets. I don’t care for anime or sports or video games - i should be able to turn off those tags. Not block 50 different game communities ad hoc

Surge suppressors do not drop extra voltage to ground. They selectively short out surges between whatever two conductors have a high potential between them.

No ground conductor means there cannot be a high potential between it and anything else!

honestly, I don’t want established Reddit supermods land grabbing topics in the Fediverse. The right people will find it organically based on their own motivation (as simple as searching for “reddit alternatives”).

Especially don’t want the shallow, low-quality content from default/“top” subreddits.

“prove it wrong”? “as we’re told”? Do you start conversations this way?

Bro, if you don’t like it you don’t have to use it.