I was not aware of the issue that downvotes negatively affect mental health.

Isn’t that exactly the beauty of the fediverse?

There have been discussions about this in the Lemmy Github repo issues. Latest info AFAIK is that this feature is waiting for some volunteer to implement it. Current developers said that they are busy with other features.

But yes, this is something that I would also like to see very much. Allowing same-topic communities to connect would be good for whole Fediverse.

Wikipedia is usually a good place for descriptions and definitions
Check out this article about Lemmy and feel free to make improvements to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social_network)

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-meme-is-from-the-future

lol I don’t think that Bender would be the best moderator

most people on the internet have way too smooth brain to comprehend this
therefore Lemmy is complex and scary

wait, what about if you have two communities where mods and admins are fine. Are there any options to federate those communities?

all this time I was under impression that communities already federate