apps are sandboxed. if all they did was upload one pic, what access did amazon really get? I’d do that for $20.

Warsaw is practically unmaintained. The Warsaw owner cancelled the Steam release despite the greenlight succeeding, leading to many devs and most of the community switched to Warfork

It would up to the moderators of the community doing the following to follow communities that abide by the same rules. If a post on the followed community broke a rule, I think it is obvious that the instance following them should have zero say over what is done. If they disagree with the moderation of another community, then they shouldn’t be following it.

I do think in many cases this would be useful on reddit as well. I assume r/truegaming was made to separate themselves from r/gaming, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t make since for r/gaming to follow r/games and vice versa, unless of course they have differing rules.

I definitely think some form of grouping is necessary for a better user experience. I would be content with user grouping, but I would love to see an option that is more automated for users, like the community following feature the author mentioned.

They have opened an instance there, but the problem the author discusses is the split of users between it and the general rust community on lemmyrs

One has already been made an has some sizeable communities, but there are also multiple other large rust communities.

Can you elaborate on why a community following another would be a moderation nightmare? It would be up to the moderators of a specific community to follow the other communities, if it became a problem, they could simply unfollow.