Because the current Lemmy userbase can only sustain a certain level of community specialization.
People are not going to subscribe to 5 different communities to talk about TV shows.
Cooking communities consolidated a while ago
Until such time that Lemmy’s user growth is at a point that it can support some of the smaller, niche cooking communities, these communities will be locked.
Why not have all of those?
Because the current Lemmy userbase can only sustain a certain level of community specialization.
People are not going to subscribe to 5 different communities to talk about TV shows.
Cooking communities consolidated a while ago
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