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submitted 1 month ago by mrmanager@lemmy.today to c/lemmytoday@lemmy.today

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Hi guys,

I wanted to ask you about our local communities here. I feel like a lot of them are not really active, and the most active one (like Conservative) has mostly locked posts, so people cant participate in discussions.

I wanted to get some input from you guys, what do you think? Should we have communities with locked posts so people cant comment? Does it still serve a purpose? Or should communities always allow discussions? My own opinion is that they should.

And should we clean up communities and remove inactive ones, making more room for local discussions?

The reason I started thinking about this is because I noticed that some other instances remove posts that are completely legal to discuss. They are just removed because admins/moderators dont like their content. Which is exactly like on reddit then.

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[–] DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

I don’t think that there’s some raging torrent of people wanting to run discussion conservative communities that this is blocking

In my conservative community, people now about how locking it stopped discussion, but I wasn't getting discussion. Every article was just people calling me a Nazi. None of the comments were about politics. It was immediately name calling and accusations. I started locking after the Kirk shooting when Lemmy was in a very weird place of celebrating blood lust.

Unlocked now tho. I think it's calmed down a bit.

And also, your post is full of great insights!