Many groups and identities (e.g. geographical areas, marginalized groups, and various large fandoms) each have a variety of subreddits (and corresponding Discor

Many groups and identities (e.g. geographical areas, marginalized groups, and various large fandoms) each have a variety of subreddits (and corresponding Discord servers) with their own unique roles: memes & humor, meta memes & humor that elevate obscure in-references to a type of absurdist canon, serious support groups for various situations, places to gather and coordinate social events and remote gaming sessions, places for non-members of the group to ask questions and be answered seriously, etc. Each of these "villages" have different subcultures and distinct moderation needs, especially to the extent they are targeted in different ways by bad-faith actors and repost bots. And it's good that they have different needs! No single moderation team should need to maintain all those subcultures with one single set of policies, nor do they have the same on-ramps and levels of traffic. Together they form a web of meta-communities. Web platforms can easily allow overlapping spheres to coexist; the dimensionality of the platform, so to speak, is practically infinite. But part-and-parcel with this is that the number of potential moderators in any group is spread across those sub-groups. If Reddit wanted to continue to grow, it would make sure the barrier to entry to maintain these communities was low. It is doing quite the opposite at this precise moment.