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You have a large pool of content to START with. Then you can filter the junk. This how you harvest the crops - everything at once then cherry pick, and this is how you prepare a lemonade - get a whole lemon and, queeze the juice out and the skin remains.

I don’t think the hierarchy you described is human nature but the effect of the state of affairs on Reddit. Think of Lemmy as a more chaotic version of Reddit where the status quo has not yet developed. Speak up your mind and help building the Lemmy status quo.