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  • An ActivityPub server-as-community has sanctions but lacks the prior steps: rules aren’t visible to outsiders and monitoring is purely reactive,

    Compare this to Reddit, where arriving at a subreddit immediately presents the community’s identity as a first-class interface element: its name, description, rules, moderators, visual identity. The community is a navigable object that you can encounter, evaluate, and choose to join.

    Lemmy communities are no different from subreddits in having a sidebar with rules and moderator lists; they even go a step further in making modlogs public. The way the article is written makes it seem like the author didn’t actually test the software they wrote about.




















  • A new user might come along and post something that revives interest in it. What Lemmy needs are more users to increase activity.

    New users are unlikely to be interested in immediately committing to creating and/or maintaining a community with regular posts and moderation over a long period of time, but might be willing to contribute to existing communities. Better to have dormant communities that can be revived than to have a lack of topics for new users to contribute to.