In the monthly server updates for lemmy.zip/piefed.zip there's a mantra that's repeated every month. I think it's wonderful and can be applied to the Fediverse as a whole.

If you’re new here - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :)

Just one small teeny-tiny request. The greatest gift you can give the Fediverse (Original: Lemmy.zip and Piefed.zip) isn’t money, praise, or interpretive dance (although we would absolutely accept the last one). Its participation.

Upvote the things you like. Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about whether water is wet or merely makes things wet. Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits your oddly specific niche obsession.
(We don’t judge. Well, we try not to judge anyway.)

The fediverse naturally ebbs and flows, tides of people come and go. But if you’ve found yourself oddly attached to this strange little corner of the internet? Wonderful. Help it breathe. Help it grow. Help it be just a tiny bit weirder in the best possible way.

So if you’ve gone to the effort of clicking Sign Up and proving you’re not a robot (unless you are, in which case hello and welcome to our new AI overlords), then please, I beg of you:

Stick around. Add your voice. It really does make this place better.

Original post by @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (4 children)

Contribtions to the fediverse are unwelcome in most popular spaces.

Unless you are just upvoting things.

If you are new you will be heavily scrutinized, and if the community owners don't love you instantly then your account goes in the "bot pile"

Makes it hard to want to participate when most relevant posts you make get removed and the mods ban you because they decide they don't like being embarrased when they're shitty.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

This is not my experience at all.

If you are being shitty that may be different. I do not see much of this for people who are engaging, particularly ones engaging like adults or at least good-natured.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Well idk what to tell you.

Being shitty is subjective and if a mod doesn't like someone using a space for what it's for then it breeds this environment.

Dismissing and invalidating people with genuine concerns is also not how we get more people to contribute.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Yeah there are also spaces with specific rules, like womenstuff that only lets women comment. Also some places have wildly different moderation philosophy. Or just, highlyOn one hand, it's fine to make a mistake and learn from it. But on the other, you can accidentally catch a blanket instance ban with no recourse.

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