I did get permission to share this private message. For the record, I loath having public Lemmy topics being discussed in private messages. I created this community to get all this OUT in the OPEN.
I already made my decision on NOT changing privacy policy. But now I see that the very idea of having more than one “Subscribed” list for an end-user is raising threats of defederation!
Tbh, if they feel the need to defederate, they certainly can and will likely see their communities wither on the vine. It seems more like an instance admin who thinks too highly of their communities and too lowly of users as reddit saw no such degradation after multi-reddits were introduced and I think you’ve pointed out the downsides to not having a similar feature