I find many people actually hate megathreads. They hate moderators telling them they can’t make a new post with their own take as the post. They hate that their comment gets lost in thousands of comments.

On Lemmy, if you look across communities and see redundant threads, then a megathread isn’t an answer. Megathreads are community/sub based. Not platform based. Megathreads only work if all the other threads are removed. And you can’t go around telling other communities to shut up because you made the megathread in your community.

That all said, I think megathreads do important work. Lemmy just isn’t big enough yet, maybe.