• poVoq@slrpnk.netM
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    7 hours ago

    So far this was just a friendly moderator notice to think about what articles to post here. If you want to post defense industry insider news, create a community for it.

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        3 hours ago

        Being a moderator is a thankless job without pay so I tend to try to comply with requests as best I can. I wasn’t asked to stop, just to be a bit more selective, which isn’t unreasonable IMHO.

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      7 hours ago

      I appreciate the friendly notice. Like I said, I’m not out to annoy anyone, I just want to make sure that there’s a value to check the Europe community regularly because there are articles there to read. Last year we had around 10k monthly active users, right now we’re down to 5k, I think it might be because of a lack of fresh content, but that might be a wrong assumption. I’ll try to limit the defense industry insider news to fewer than three articles per day. 😜

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        7 hours ago

        The reduction of MAU here is IMO mostly due to a large instance defederating from feddit.org and related drama posts that specifically highlighted this community as a reason for defederation.

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          7 hours ago

          This community? The most vanilla community I’ve ever seen. What here could have caused defederation?

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            6 hours ago

            Disagreements over how to handle posts & comments about the situation in the middle east. This community is just among the most exposed & english speaking communities on Feddit.org thus it has the most conflict potential.

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              6 hours ago

              Yeah, that’ll do it. I keep away from all middle East stuff. Everything related to that situation is lose/lose.