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Re-reading your post before I hit submit.... I think I am just repeating what you are saying!
What I was saying:
I think the solution is "meta instances" or "meta communities" or "meta aggregators".
A community or instance that aggregates the smaller communities.
And some way for smaller communities to submit content to that aggregator.
Like, I'm browsing my instance's "all". I find a good meme that suits my "programming memes" interest. So, I submit that post to the aggregator.
Essentially like cross posting, but a community of all crossposts and everything is treated like it's on the original instance.
But as a primary feature. Where it's easy to "submit to aggregate subscription" or whatever.
But then we would get every instance with their own meta-community, and it's just a complication on top of communities and instances.
Putting a list of similar instances and communities in the sidebar would help a ton. Yes, there is a list of communities on every instance, but I'm not scrolling through a hundred rows trying to determine which I might like based on the names.
The trick is to have meta-meta-communities to aggregate the aggregators :)