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I'd say it's both a feature and a bug of the Fediverse!
Everyone is free to start their own server, just as everyone is free to splinter off. This means no central authority deciding what you can see and can't see.
In the ideal state, there would be multiple servers with the same discussion topic (eg a few "news" communities would exist on beehaw, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml etc). Each of them will slowly take a different direction. This is already kinda happening on reddit (news, worldnews, neutralnews, etc), but here it should happen across servers.
Beehaw is a bit of a weird animal, they don't like having so many users all at once because it leads to moderation issues. I think they should have just appointed more mods, but they decided on the last-resort option of splintering off temporarily. They really value having a small,close-knit community - they don't allow people to start their own communities (the subreddit equivalent), downvotes aren't allowed, etc, so discussion is only focused on a few main channels.
As a new user, i think it's fine for you to be on lemmyworld! It has the largest variety of content here, although the pace of new content is still slow because lemmy has 1% of 1% of reddit's userbase. Feel free to contribute!
The takeaway for now is, you can see beehaw posts but can't really participate. I personally found it useful to block beehaw communities so I can see the activity elsewhere. The current default lemmy sort isn't very good - I would try sorting by Hot or New.
Thanks for this explanation. I’m starting to understand this a bit more and more. I think once apps become more mature things will become better… I was spoiled by Apollo.