Eesh, reading the comments and the immature modlog response is disappointing, that was actually an interesting and respectful discussion in a community that doesn’t seem to have any activity. It seems like lemmy as a whole is just falling into the same issues non-federated discussion/social media have at this point with moderation and communities. It’s like there’s no real solution; the less people there are, the more insular and detached the community and its moderation is, but the more people there are, the more generic and poor quality the discussion becomes. There’s a lot of communities like that one too that you can see aren’t really communities, but just a few people posting over and over to prop it up as one. Then the minute there’s some discussion from a new person, they’re removed.

I will say communities about wildlife and science, like the ones on mander.xyz, are consistently good. Seems to be an exception. Maybe it’s because it attracts people who want to learn and discuss things they’re passionate about? Maybe some topics are just doomed to fail no matter where their communities are. I’m going on a tangent now, but I’m just tired of every space on the internet being like this, even the ones meant to break away from it. Honestly Beehaw as a whole is pretty good though, I did stop using this account since the announcement about it leaving but it still seems to be going strong!