There is a big difference between slow growth over time though (say a few percent of the existing user base every month) and a giant influx of new users (say 10 times the existing user base in a single month). The latter destroys everything the community was about since nobody knows the unwritten rules and new users copy bad behaviour from other new users.

Why would you want them to? Look up the “September that never ended” and what that effect does to communities.

How can you vote responsibly if you don’t know what the politicians and parties are doing and saying?

The best cure for this is to read more news about people. A healthy dislike for people in general makes you worry less about the future of humanity ;-)

Seems quite reasonable to remove illegal communities given how Lemmy works with the caching of all content locally. There is just a significant legal risk for the instance operators involved here.

You forgot to mention breeding pets with problems in breathing, posture and organ damage to make them look “cute”.

A spray bottle for oil to easily coat a pan or food in oil without using huge amounts of it.

If that worked Lex Luthor would have killed Superman long ago.

We here on Lemmy don’t have great interoperability with the microblog side of the fediverse, so we’re less likely to see Threads activity.

I for one would be fine with just defederating from the entire microblogging world, Fediverse or otherwise. In fact, just cut them out of the internet completely. They are essentially the text equivalent of the sound bite and actively harm public discourse.

they can’t take away a console disk,

Technically not but you still only own a license and those walled garden platforms of consoles can easily be used to block you from using that disk for anything meaningful.

There is a name and a display name. The actual name is necessary for the links.