I just want to say thanks for this discord analogy. It is way more accurate and effective than that "email" analogy I've been seeing

How will this help the posters reach the fragmented communities? Will they just pray that everyone is using the the aggregator?

This seems like a devisive topic.

The fragmentation is not a feature to me, but something I view as detrimental.

Yeah I this is my biggest problem, and there's always like 30 people saying "it's not a problem, it's a feature!"

Either they are in denial or I'm just completely incompatible with federation.

Why would I want 100 fragmented communities for the exact same thing? If I wanted to consume content from all of them sure, I could follow all 100 but that is so tedious. Plus what if I wanted to interact with them? I'd have to ask the same question 100 times!