My usual concern with force redirecting people to “where the stuff is popular” is that it promotes centralization, which is the literal opposite of why we’re here. Besides, as I’ve commented some other times, the feasibility of user participation is not transitive across instances. !soccer@sports.xyz might have a completely different rules, mood or culture than !soccer@euro.pe , or the redirect might lead to !soccer@ya.ml which is blocked in my country or otherwise made unavailable. (I am using examples here ofc but I guess this could very well hit people in and around feddit.uk, for one).

There is literally no punishment for keeping a community open so it can sometime either grow organically or die organically. Locking them however, fully prevents either option.

…It’s literally a public communication network? The point is that what you post is seen.

If you want private there’s Signal, Jabber, etc. Wholly different purposes.

If they are locked, the people who come here and see them locked will go elsewhere instead of contributing, because they literally can’t.

Some people came here to creat communities (eg.: in the wake of Reddit stuff) with the hope that it would catch on. But we can’t expect them to do all the work.

Requires Github (/Microsoft). Not good.

mAkE FaMiLY nUcLeaR aGaIN

Just tell them the truth.

Children, I voted for your mother to be treated as a subhuman and we all got what I voted for. Don’t you dare throw me into an asylum!

Wouldn’t a zero-knowledge hosting solution (you provide hosting, but you can’t see what’s into it past a stream of binary) help with that?

If you mean citizenship as being associated to the city whose hosting services you are using, yhe power or water bill pointed at your name and residence should be able to do that. Now, if you want that plus anonimity, the only practical option I can think of for a city-wide physical campaign is some sort of GPG Signature Meetup (“signature party”).

Have you tried hiring a couple humans? They’re much better than AI. And you help your local (physical or virtual) economy!