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.
This just popped up on my “Home” feed, but I see it’s an older post.
I tend to agree that communities should have commenting open. If they don’t want comments, then social media isn’t the place to post.
In terms of removing posts: my opinion is if they are legal to discuss (as you mentioned), and they’re not harassing folks, then they should be allowed to stay.
In my communities at least, most of the comments are just name calling and false accusations. Lemmy def does not appreciate anything that isn’t a left viewpoint.
Discussion is fine. Posters just telling me that I celebrate pedo’s and Nazis because I post an article from Fox News isn’t really discussion tho. lol