Hi guys,
I wanted to ask you about our local communities here. I feel like a lot of them are not really active, and the most active one (like Conservative) has mostly locked posts, so people cant participate in discussions.
I wanted to get some input from you guys, what do you think? Should we have communities with locked posts so people cant comment? Does it still serve a purpose? Or should communities always allow discussions? My own opinion is that they should.
And should we clean up communities and remove inactive ones, making more room for local discussions?
The reason I started thinking about this is because I noticed that some other instances remove posts that are completely legal to discuss. They are just removed because admins/moderators dont like their content. Which is exactly like on reddit then.
Agreed! Individual users have so many tools to block people/places that they don’t wanna see. I have no idea why some choose to visit places they hate, then complain that their instances hasn’t defed’d from someone. If I don’t like somewhere, I don’t go here. If I keep coming across it and it annoys me enough, I just block it. Boom! Gone
The whole idea of Lemmy, that made me support it in the first place, is that it was designed with the goal of no one controling what you see or do. So I don’t understand all the users complaining to their instance admins about who should be banned from Lemmy for life or whatever. Just block, and move on. We have built in tools just for that.
That’s the whole point of Lemmy in my opinion: no one controls you.