toki! mi jan Sotan. mi pali e ijo.
not retro gaming, but Sony Ericsson phones used these basically up until they disappeared
I think* the basic idea is that there’d be specialized hosts/instances for certain broader topics, OR just allowing to create close “communities” by disallowing cross-intance interactions.
It could be confusing for a while, but I think in time things will mostly normalize in one way or another and the concept of “rival subreddits” were already a thing.
*: I’m also new here, so all of this is just conjecture
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