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For them, for now.

So what happens when pleasing the investors becomes the only priority?

Lurkers need to subscribe for the content to appear in their Subscribed feed. Kicking them out may simply result in them rejoining again. It would be a constant struggle against that.

Plus, if such purges occur routinely, then what about a major poster who takes a break, even if for like a year (let's say they have a baby)? Actively getting rid of lurkers sends a signal that they are not welcomed. Especially if in the future Lemmy adds the ability for mods to have to approve join requests.

Whereas simply using "monthly active users" avoids all of that. Do as you please with any of your communities - in which case it would be helpful for the sake of transparency to literally add it to the rules (those who don't participate will eventually get purged) - but I thought I would list out some of these issues, in case it helped!:-)

Yes but the only one I've ever seen that blocks all of the big 3 is lemmy.cafe. And even that does not block posts that advocate for violence - e.g. an example from literally yesterday, and this one from a memes community on Lemmy.world, from a user on sopuli.xyz.

Note that I am not advocating for removal of such content, only relating how in my personal experience, suggesting the Fediverse to normies has never once turned out any other way than badly. Granted, hexbear.net for its severity and lemmy.ml for its large userbase are probably 99.9% of the issue, but especially until after the election I have no plans to tell people about Lemmy anymore. After that, if lemmy.cafe still has Lemmy.ml removed, I will probably tell people about that one as an entry point.

Which isn't all on its own going to push the Fediverse into the mainstream, until we do more cleanup to make normal people feel welcomed rather than scared to be here.

That works too. Like some people prefer Arch btw, and that's wonderful. But... mainstream normies aren't likely to want that. Anyway, lemm.ee is already awesome and exists:-).

I'll just come out and say it: there is an enormous difference between a communist and a "tanky". For one, only one of those actually believes in communism, and for another one of them is capable of rational discussion without resorting to the "your (sic) stoopid (sp), nuh uh YOU are!" schtick. I have found it more protective of my sanity to block the other type.

Florida says hello. A bunch of other places too, sadly:-(.

Reddit did things to us all. You couldn't like be nice to someone bc you would get your ass handed to you. EVERY comment had to be so defensive, and primarily what worked was snark. Here... is different, most of the time (and when it's not, we can block and move on:-).

I tried multiple times. They give me dirty looks and grief about all the political extremist content here. We who know how to block it tend to forget, but for a newcomer it's definitely off-putting. And yes X is that way these days too, but people already know it and don't visit it for the first time, so it gets grandfathered in.

We have some work to do before we will go mainstream.

I've stopped referring to community sizes - especially when there hasn't been a post for a year. Instead, monthly active users is where it's at:-).

On the other hand, what better way for a parent to ensure that their precious little guy remains one? 😜