For me it’s been the people trying to turn this into a carbon copy of their Reddit experience. I get the desire to fill the void after leaving Reddit, but this is a different place with a different group of people and a different social dynamic. We don’t need copies of the subreddits we had on Reddit. We don’t need separate communities for every type of meme or joke like we had over there (yet). Creating niche communities is a little premature when we don’t even have the larger ones reading critical mass yet.

And to a much lesser degree, I would like to stop seeing people say “sublemmy.” But at least I understand how we got there. “Community” is such a generic term, it’s easy to not realize that’s what they’re called.