my use of these words refers to the fact that people who have questions also have the autonomy to ask them in the forum in general/decentralized.
as the threads are also something people can 'follow' those with many followers have potentially also more readers/people who could answer questions,
there were things i asked in my own little threads, with no responses, but when same or similar things were asked in more *popular'/centralized threads people got responses quickly. so, i think if one is interested in getting answers quickly, i makes sense to ask them in these higher frequented threads.
i still think curating the threads and sorting them into categories is a helpful thing to have. thank you for that.