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Yeah, fair enough, but in the good old days boards used to have clear structures for topics, off topic sections etc. Lemmy is a bit messy at times..
Lemmy is equally well structured by topics! An instance is the equivalent of a board, a community is the equivalent of the forum, a post is the equivalent of a thread/topic.
I have to disagree with you here. Nominally, what you're saying is kinda true, but the old school boards I'm thinking of would have a directory like structure with (usually) clear labels and with little overlap -- most of the time having a shared theme for the entire message board. Notably, these boards were not federated with multiple versions of each branch of the structure living side by side. In terms of "what goes where", even very broad scope traditionalist message boards were/are a lot easier to follow. That doesn't mean your're wrong that one has to learn to understand the platform as it is, it's a fair point.