lol they’re down to 290 users/day. Their decision to defederate so much has fucked them.
Hexbear has very low user churn so we get away with low growth sources to maintain community health. They on the other hand have very high user churn due to users having no political motive for being there.
On Lemmy as an independent instance you need to solve this or you die.
For lemm.me, I’ve noticed a lot of banned users come from that instance and it feels like we get the most pushback from them. I wouldn’t be surprised if they eventually defederate from us
My experience with the instance owner has been good. They are committed to neutrality while maintaining strong hate moderation. I don’t think they will defed, particularly if they see us as people promoting them because we prefer them to lemmyworld being dominant, but I’ve been wrong before.
