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Up until now, social containers like groups, communities, or subreddits on all the largest social networks have existed as fundamentally separate locations on a single hierarchical level.
"Up until now"... Uh... no, Usenet... was the open standard for social media. Created in 1979. A foundation of the Internet. Just as much as e-mail was.
alt.tv.simpsons
alt.tv.futuramaWhy did so much of usenet end up on Google Groups?
It was a big deal when we got an archive we could search of all content...
"The Deja News Research Service was an archive of messages posted to Usenet discussion groups, started in March 1995 by Steve Madere in Austin, Texas. Its powerful search engine capabilities won the service acclaim, generated controversy, and significantly changed the perceived nature of online discussion. This archive was acquired by Google in 2001."
Why did change the perceived nature? That discussion became less ethereal?
Storage was still pretty expensive, and there we transitions in computing from originally paper terminals to screen and people didn't have a sense of long-term retention of personal messages (I guess many people probably felt that way about SMS messages on mobile). There also wasn't really a way to look at a user's "profile" like you have on Lemmy - to see everything you post in any topic - which a search-engine provided a way to search for your name across a time period.
That's not really the same thing because 'alt.tv' doesn't aggregate everything under it. Let alone the other relationships they describe (e.g. biochemistry).
Really, are you going to ignore what it says? The opening?
It implies a flat /c/a /c/b /r/a /r/b system "until now"? Or am I wrong?
Perhaps you aren't faniliar with how under-utilizes naming dots matter in domain names?
smtp.chemistry.science.oranic.org has been in the Internet (Usenet) conventions for a VERY long time! Forgotten, burred in $$$$$$ wealth. "Windows"... Everywhere. Owning the words. TradeMarks.