Skavau

So the reputation system. I’ll see if Rimu can be talked into making it instance level.

But its function is primarily to just catch out trolls and spammers. Make them more visible to admins.

Why? Much of it is orientated around giving admins tools to deal with trolls/spammers/AI posters. An alert system.

The blocking tool specifically? Most block functions on sites operate like Piefeds.

Oh people making the claim that Lemmy being too political or too hard-left drives users off and is responsible for the user malaise. I’m sure that’s true, but not to an appreciable level.

So what’s going on here, most likely, is that the intake of new users is declining as opposed to people specifically being driven off the platform (as some users allege).