This hyperfixation some have with user numbers or activity stats is nothing but harmful. As you mentioned already, the amount of content, whilst significantly smaller, is much more organic. I've got more out of my ~2 months on Lemmy than I did on the previous 2 years I was on Reddit.
For what it's worth, Cymru is 'Wales' in Welsh. Ah, okay, wasn't entirely sure what the situation was with the other two. I'll keep contributing in the new community anyhow, hopefully we'll build another flourishing community.
I'm also of the opinion that defederation should be a last resort and frankly should never be looked at as a permanent solution anyhow, rather a temporary bandaid (See the bug abuse earlier on)
With individuals having the ability to block instances/communities as a whole forthcoming, I don't see a reason for lemm.ee to take that choice out of the hands of the users.
We're all adults, once we have the ability, we will be able to curate what we want to see and what we don't and as such, any defederation is frankly unnecessary.
I'll preface this by saying I know I'm in the minority with this.
But all this will serve to do for me is stop me from using any websites or indeed browsers that utilise this. It will essentially just be lost traffic for them. However small of a drop in the pond that may be.
Appreciate it, just glad I could explain my view point.
I'm conscious of the rules in this community, so I won't post it here but if you look in my profile you'll see my work, thank you though, for enquiring – means a lot.
I can't speak for everyone else, but I wrote about this exact thing recently (Rainbow Washing & False support of Pride by Corporations/Politicians for financial gain etc)
I absolutely scrutinise all the other forms of corporate ass-holery too. The only difference, that I feel anyhow, is it's considerably easier to point out the stark contrast between certain corporate actions during pride month, and their actions outside of pride month. It's a unique situation where we haven't been experiencing this for so long that it's simply business as usual.
For me, it's not a question of hating pride and using this as a means to push through hateful rhetoric – It's definitely just a case of tackling one thing at a time. Though I absolutely will concede that you're more than likely correct in your assumption that social conservatives will attempt to hinder the pride movement by wrapping up their bullshit rhetoric and policy in social justice.
I'm using Thunder for Lemmy currently though I also checked Jerboa, and Lemmy on my desktop and the links display perfectly fine for me on all three, as displayed in the screenshot I sent earlier.
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Couldn't have put it better if I tried.
This hyperfixation some have with user numbers or activity stats is nothing but harmful. As you mentioned already, the amount of content, whilst significantly smaller, is much more organic. I've got more out of my ~2 months on Lemmy than I did on the previous 2 years I was on Reddit.