yeah there definitely is some benefit already from anyone being able to create a group… if you start a similar group and one relay denies you, another relay is happy to host, and thusly there isn’t a company admin or company mod saying you can have that group at all here.

That idea of just using op threads outside of a group isn’t a bad one. I don’t see downvotes in replies either, which is nice.

If it’s all kind one, this could turn into a super hell thread quickly in standard clients, but that’s not related to the idea of reddit style mods is bad.

maybe the solution is to curate a feed from those op threads… and if you want a simplex or even discord group for real time chat you could just put that in a bio.