i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.

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    Even in the hay day of online discussion forum websites you’d have trolls that derail threads and bring nastiness to the forefront.

    Good moderation, clearly defined rules and quality of content are key contributes to quality forum.

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      Now if we can get some of the niche forums more population.

      create any you find missing. you are automatically the moderator. boring unpaid responsibility which you can trash if it starts to irritate

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      The Lemmy homepage could do a random “Community Focus” where one random community is pinned for a day or 2 - or something like that. Just so people notice some of the tinier communities. I joined many when I 1st signed up but now my feed is full, so I hardly look for new ones anymore.

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        Great idea! Also I noticed that sports communities are mainly bots. Really wonder just how many actively posting users there are on Lemmy?