Gated enclaves? Sounds great. /s

As somebody who moderates health and diet communities, yes these community tools are absolutely required.

Especially with respect to voting, there needs to be an

• option for a community to not go to the all feed if requested
• option to only allow subscribers to vote
• ability that doesn’t require a ban, but to unsubscribe someone from the community,
• require people to have accounts of a certain age, or certain level of participation in Lemmy, or in a community, before being able to post or vote
• remove a user from a community if they only have negative interaction with the community, like only down votes

Right now it’s very difficult for small communities to get started unless they’re loved by the current population of lemmy. Which means it’s going to be difficult to bring other groups here.

I think it’s critical for the growth of Lemmy that there are genuinely opt-in communities.

I think the philosophy needs to take into account that people want to make a community to talk about a subject, sometimes they want to talk about the subject in detail, and not just hold a general referendum on the popularity of the subject for the Lemmy as a whole.

Imagine star trek fans downvote everything from star wars, and vice versa. If someone comes along to make a community for snow speeder project building… They’re going to have a bad time, all the Star trek fans will downvote and chill participation. We need these super small interest communities to grow to attract a broader population