I also want to emphasize that I don’t think this decision will have a significant effect on the actual functioning of communities to the extent that you seem to believe, and it’s more about the principle than anything else.
At least the two following communities are going to be either shut down or mod replaced:
Ultimately, it’s up to the more intelligent people to determine what is true and false, and the best way to do that is through open, uncensored debate.
So people have to debunk flat-earthers theories everytime they show up? Seems unrealistic
This policy is the board that we point to when we see something obscene on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com so that we can actually do something about it without being too authoritarian ourselves.
If their servers delete content you want deleted, yes.
It's the case for Lemmy
Unfortunately there was some miscommunication in this issue and we failed to get to the root cause. In fact the Lemmy backend has an option to delete all content when an account is deleted. This used to be the default behaviour but was changed in 0.19 so you need to set a parameter delete_content. We failed to add a checkbox for this parameter to lemmy-ui.
However the checkbox is added now in #2385 and will be included in the next Lemmy release. Other frontends and clients may also need to adjust the delete_account api call.
Unfortunately there was some miscommunication in this issue and we failed to get to the root cause. In fact the Lemmy backend has an option to delete all content when an account is deleted. This used to be the default behaviour but was changed in 0.19 so you need to set a parameter delete_content. We failed to add a checkbox for this parameter to lemmy-ui.
However the checkbox is added now in #2385 and will be included in the next Lemmy release. Other frontends and clients may also need to adjust the delete_account api call.
Compare it to a more well known (but arguably still pretty shitty) alternative Mewe, which has 20 million registered users and 170k active users as of 2023, and I think it paints the picture that there is a real desire for alternatives.
I didn't know about Mewe, but it seems you can't browse the content without an account? Seems like a big difference compared to Reddit/Lemmy
Bluesky, Mastodon
Bluesky is microblogging, not threaded forums like Reddit or Lemmy. Same for Mastodon.
Threaded forums are a very niche type of social media. People around you usually know about Facebook and Twitter, Reddit not so much.
And that's why I'm fine with Lemmy only being able to sustain a slow growth, Reddit is already not as busy as it used to be, especially since quite a few "power posters" left for other places, be it Lemmy or others.
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