Editing to delete all of this. I am getting real threats again, and I am not willing to have a complete mental collapse over fucking Lemmy for a 2nd time. Fuck this place. And especially fuck all of the transpose assholes bent on making my life hell. I am deleting my accounts permanently, but will leave the content up. Don't worry, you won't need to kill or doxx me, I intend to take care of the former myself.
How so? Wouldn't more posts/comments be a good thing for Lemmy?
They're extremely abusive towards each other. Instead of just blocking users they set up harassment and thought policing communities to screenshot and drama post about each other in a way that makes any normal person delete their account and go back to reddit.
This guy cm0002 for example, what they are doing is totally unhinged, it is really off putting and reeks of desperation. I'm not a tankie, I have differing opinions. Do I need to thought police tankies? No. I get along with everyone because we're just shit posting online. Then I go and hang out with my family and do things like hiking. But these people literally freak out and spend hundreds of waking hours tracking people, screen shotting them, gathering evidence and in cm0002s case emulates a bot manually reposting. It is fucking crazy. Dude, tankies aren't even a real thing most people who aren't terminally online ever heard of.
Not inherently. Activity is certainly important, and some people might just leave if a place seems too slow compared to what they're used to. But the quality of activity is also important. (If it didn't, we'd be firing up repost bots and AI tools to generate junk.) In fact, one think many people have said they like about Lemmy instances is that it seems like replies actually mean something here and don't just get lost in the mix. There's more of a community.