This isn’t “one or the other” IMO. There’s room for niche instances hyper-focused on a generalized topic like “math,” “comp sci,” “sports,” etc.

But then there should also be a massive generalized instance (hopefully 2 at least so the competition keeps admins in check) that has a little bit of everything and acts as a Reddit replacement. We can have our cake and eat it too.

Would love to checkout the code for this thanks for the suggestion

Hey not everything needs to be federated! I’m a huge decentralization advocate for large scale community resources but for most commercial settings a centralized service like Slack will do the trick!