Yes, its generative, but it illustrates the idea
I was going to post on !fedimemes@feddit.uk but that instance has a no generative content policy.
I think a major limiter on lemmy growth are the instances that encourage talk of violence, crime, being abusive to others, and are just generally super combative... maybe not written into the instance rules, but as demonstrated by what instance admins don't enforce on their own users.
I know a schism is scary for a small society like lemmy, but I'm starting to think its necessary
if not a defederation, some protocol level whitelisting of users or comms that demonstrate the bare minimum of being able to play nicely with others (realizing this would take some novel work - like adding a user level whitelist to federation rather then the current banlist, and while were at it some eventual consistency in meta-state in bans)
Basically, the toxicity needs to be partitioned off, gated, or some level of meta-moderation for instances that wont police themselves to minimum levels of behavior. It's embarrassing to share lemmy with people I know now, given how off the wall it quickly gets.
