Some examples of active sabotage?

2 separate unrelated statements.

More users isn’t necessarily good.

Every time there’s an influx from whatever shit storm we retain about 20%.

Not really. They’re both link aggregators but to say it’s simply a clone is reductive.

I dislike the constant reddit comparisson.

Lets just try to be our own thing. Not like reddit and also not unlike reddit just be lemmy.

It’s not saying “everyone come to lemmy” it’s saying “everyone post more an reinvigorate communities”.

IKR.

Call me a gatekeeper but it’s not secret arcane knowledge for a privileged few.

You just sign up the same way you’ve done anything ever.