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.
They’re not now. The amount of nazi and fascist accusations, and Lemmy celebrations right after the Kirk shooting was getting out of hand, so I locked things down for a bit. I think things have calmed down now, so no locking now :)