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> You are aware that an entire generation of Internet forums operated (and still operate) this way, right?

And yet many of them died or, better put, most of the new forums were never born nowadays because communities moved to centralized, managed solutions (Facebook, Telegram, Discord, Slack etc)

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I mostly attributed this at the time to UI/UX improvement in the centralized platforms, and not needing so many different logins for different communities.

Many of the focused niche discussions around the globe still happen in forums (and subreddits).

Reddit is as centralized as a platform could ever be.

I didn't claim otherwise

what's interesting about Reddit is that moderation is (in theory) decentralized and handled independently by each sub. Only account creation and discovery are centralized, from the perspective of an average user experience. The whole point of a federated system is that you get the best of both worlds: global discovery and one single account/login for all communities, but you retain per-community moderation.

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