I absolutely agree that the „Local“ button on the front page is weird. I don’t get how it’s useful and it kind of negates the „it doesn’t matter what instance you have your account at“ argument.

There is already

https://beehaw.org/c/gaming

!gaming@beehaw.org

Which seems to have the same goal. I don’t think we should start communities for every topic on every instance if we want Lemmy to succeed :)

I started playing D4 two days ago and constantly try to pause the game when I need to give something else attention. It should also be easy to do when you’re alone in a dungeon. There are games that are online but let you pause when you’re alone (though I can’t remember which game I am thinking of right now)

Honestly, I would argue that it's more of a "bug" of Lemmy than a feature because it leads to fragmentation of communities. But we will have to see how Lemmy evolves now that we reddit refugees are all here.