I’m beginning to see that in order for lemmy to be truly federated, users must also become federated

It’s much more normal for a person to have many more subs attached to a single account than it is to have many accounts

E.g. you might have say 3 accounts, but one of those accounts might have 100 subs, relatively speaking the numbers aren’t comparable

That’s all well and good, but a user can be subscribed to many subs

I don’t know if it’s intentional or not, but you’re describing cyclical groups