Yeah, that’s definitely a shame. Let’s see how it goes, but I’m about to create a !usdefaultism somewhere just to list those occurrences

This thread (and others in that post) might interest you: https://communick.news/post/2320430/4138857

https://archive.ph/YtA25

Monthly active users increased by 43% between 13 and 14 January: https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Hello, FYI this community has a rule preventing questions about US politics, feel free to post on !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world

But then if any LW community are going to become US specific from now due to the political climate, should people not interested in that just move elsewhere?

Example: !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world , all the recent posts are about the US elections

So this was on !videos@hexbear.net right?

Then why is Dessalines involved as you are a LW user?

Anyway, you might probably want to report this on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com or !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works rather than here

The other night 337K people all registered to vote, simply because Taylor Swift sent one message on instagram.

That’s the example used by OP to make their point. Just from a technical perspective, how are instances supposed to handle 300k new users overnight?

To come back to your usual argument, do you expect those hundreds of thousands of new users to get a Communick subscription? Or to even support the hosting costs of the instances they would use?

Aside for @blaze@feddit.org: see what I mean about Fedi’s anti-growth and reactionary culture? Our friend here is not an isolated case

It’s more against having celebrities and their followers coming here en masse, which I get.

I’ve still seen a few comments mentioning “organic grow” which seems indeed healthier

If your email address is lostmymind@outlook.com, what prevents someone to create lostmymind@gmail.com and pretend to be you?

We have our own astroturfing bots, did we make it?

Found on !memes@lemmy.ml

Variation

Let’s give it a try

There is still some material

• the latest vegan vs LW drama (as a subtopic, Rooki getting unpopular)
• the media bias fact checker backlash
• obvious trolls trying to get in while they stand out due to the low population
• Sublinks coming out soon™
• Ongoing beef with Reddit
• Regular beefs between communities (e.g. !android@lemdro.id vs !android@lemmy.world )
• Lemmy.ml admins powertripping when someone criticizes the CCP
• Piefed almost on-par with Lemmy while being developed by a single person in a year
• US people taking over entire communities because why not (!politics@lemmy.world being only US politics while the main LW admins are EU citizens)