If you want specifics like that you may want to pick a smaller instance.

It can be hit and miss whether you’ll have issues until you try

Oh thank you for explaining

Why would the upgrade equate to more monthly active users?

Might have a bit to do with the regular admin posts where they talk about leaving Lemmy all together.

Their chat communities occasionally have some decent stuff

I think it necroing posts on Reddit makes sense. There’s a lot of very specific posts that can vary slightly from each other but I find with forums you can get a general post for a topic that has 30+ pages of responses and it can be a bit of a pain to comb through all of them at times. In my experience I see a lot of people linking to other comments in the forum because something has already been brought up a few times.

This is basically what @[email protected] said about beating a dead horse but I feel like it’s slightly more tolerable with a Reddit style system where there’s more posts with at least minor differences. It’s a bit easier to follow.

This could also just be the forums that I have used shaping my opinion

I agree with your points. Especially the third one. I do hope a majority of instances op-out of locking posts but I could see large instances like lemmy.world definitely jumping to do it and focus more on new content and expansion

On Reddit or here you mean?

I feel like Reddit’s version of bump was people commenting This all the time

I get what you mean but I think it’s a decent way to breath some life into older small communities and show the people posting there it wasn’t for nothing. The relevancy of a post doesn’t always have to fade as well.

I still prefer people posting new content but I think engaging with old posts can be beneficial.

My point was so far it’s been a one-off. That’s like the people who come to Lemmy and get one rude response and complain that Lemmy is hostile and no better than Reddit

Yeah but this the first time it’s happened to you right?

You just said

Just recently I was actually arguing with some people and pointing out that I’d never had my stuff removed on Lemmy even though I have some viewpoints that are way more unpopular than “Israel shouldn’t kill civilians.”

and are complaining when one of your comments get removed. From your post it doesn’t seem like a trend of the fediverse

Maybe they were worried about things escalating? Your comment also didn’t support Hamas so maybe they didn’t think it had value outside of potentially starting a heated debate in the comment section that was unrelated to the article.

And now, the Reddit mod philosophy has arrived here.

With how many communities and instances there are and how wildly they can differ from each other I don’t think that’s true.

Honestly I feel like the darker stuff would scare a lot of people away from joining. There was that major CSAM issue on one of the more popular instances a while ago. I think it was a shit posting community.

I get what you mean. With how federation works I feel like instead of subscribing to communities I can almost do the inverse and block the ones I don’t like.

Dumb question but are images allowed on your instance? Some disabled it after illegal content was posted and federated

Then have people expecting more or less what Twitter was on the Fediverse. I personally would rather see it verge off in it’s own direction away from a lot of what Twitter was from the mechanics to the atmosphere.

That’s good to hear and was an interesting read. Thanks!

Eugen Rochko, the software’s German creator, explained amid a flood of new users this month that he’d adopted the word “toot” early on at the urging of a popular Youtuber who’d offered him financial support as long as he continued using the term, which in addition to describing the noise created by a horn is — in American English at least — a synonym for the word “fart.”

Rochko said at the time he was unaware of the connotation.

I suppose it makes sense. I’ll probably keep calling them toots similar to how I call posts on X tweets.