@fishcharlie @gracjan @nf3xn

> There is nothing stopping someone from creating r/anime and r/animeofficial

There's nothing, and it happens with new TV shows - Example, From (Paramount+). But when this happens, one of the communities ends up being the bigger one, and, since it's centralized, you know easily which one is bigger or more active. Which you wouldn't know in a decentralized environment, since your instance might not know about some other instance