I like this part of lemmy. You can easily toggle whether you want posts/communities from your instance or globally. And I agree that some of the communities are redundant but I've found that it is easy enough to follow similar communities so my feed is all content I like.
If anyone likes to explore random communities/posts, I added a "Feeling Lucky" button in the Lemmy web app Quiblr. It's been a useful way to find interesting posts
I think the struggle is that we still need to build more tools for the fediverse ecosystem. I've been building Lemmy frontends but it's a big lift to make a world class experience for users, moderators, instance owners, etc.
Progress is being made, but I agree that Lemmy was not prepped for the wave of Reddit users.
I’ve never thought about that. Like a cat’s whiskers for humans