It's tricky because a lot of Reddit thrives on niche communities. The general subs get too chaotic and well...general. What if I want to talk in depth about some random obscure media from 20 years ago? It's trickier to do that in such a general discussion forum because the vast majority of people won't be interested. Reddit even has a sub for my specific profession that you cannot find anywhere on the web because my career is so niche. It's nice to be able to talk to others in that community...but elsewhere no one will even have any idea what I'm talking about.

What I'll miss most about Reddit is all of the niche communities I subbed to. Usually I would discard the general ones in favor of curating my own content for things that I like.

We'll see how it all plays out though. I do understand why many Beehaw users don't like this aspect...but many people out there need it to be satisfied.

I think there's a fear that if a niche subreddit goes private permanently that community will be lost unless there's an analogue set up here.

There's going to be a learning curve, and I'd imagine that specific instances will eventually pop up as the user base grows in size and grows more comfortable with the platform.