I think a surefire way to help with this would be to have a rule that any instance that becomes the largest one on Lemmy should lock itself instantly. That way, we’ll only surpass the current max number of users on a single instance until it’s completely spread out

Even if it’s just links, taking the time to find them yourself and post them is a useful step, since relevant doesn’t always mean insightful or interesting.

Also, you’re not completely tied to links. Make/ask for recommendations, life pro tips, etc.

This is such a well written piece, it’s closer to a serious article than a blogpost

All three posts are still up though, and the usernames of the posters are visible as well.

I know it’s bad, but I don’t think they’d openly admit that it was because of Luigi, even if it did happen. They’re too smart for that, given how vaguely they’ve been phrasing their new rules and enforcement policies.

I was right there as well. I saw creators I trust putting out stuff talking about the state of social media today (Technology Connections on YouTube in particular) and that was around when I started diving back into bluesky, then after a little more reading around, mastodon and lemmy. Never looked back after that.

I imagine it’s a convenient way to weed out all those pesky people saying inconvenient things that investors don’t like

Ah, yes. The theoretical good billionaire.

And just choke it to death