Proactively banning problematic users before they cause issues is necessary. Prevention is better than cure.

Which is important if you don’t want the Fediverse to become the next Voat.

The /s tag is important to easily recognize sarcasm, especially for neurodivergent people.

I saw red vent in comms

You’re welcome!

Just a heads-up, your account is marked as a bot account, you probably misconfigured it.

This is probably the first-ever post to surpass 1,000 upvotes.

That would be a bad idea. While only a small percentage of users actively create engaging content, the problem is that those active users will lose the incentive to participate if there’s nobody else to engage with, and this will cause them to eventually flock back to the non-Fediverse social media sites.

We should instead streamline Lemmy’s sign-up like how Mastodon did it. The easier it is to sign up and the more users there are (even if many are lurkers), the better.