@CyberEgg, a few assumptions in your reply are wrong.

“One should be able to explain one’s postings” - no. I’m not a community organizer and I don’t owe anyone a response on demand. I’m a person sharing memes I find worth sharing, to the degree I have time. I have a family and a life outside here. Not answering a comment is not a failure of duty; it means I didn’t get to it. Every comment does not deserve a reply, and every meme does not deserve a lecture attached.

“It looks like the personal platform of an individual” - to you. Not to everyone. This community has ~2,800 subscribers and ~650 daily active users. People engage with the content the same way no matter who posts it. You don’t speak for the community, and the data doesn’t back “this turns everyone away.”

“What’s the context of the numbers?” - the last 100 posts here came from 15 authors on a ~2,800-subscriber community. r/HistoryMemes has millions of members and produced those 100 posts from 78 authors at ~40–50 posts/day. A community this size does not generate that volume on its own. Someone has to seed the feed, or it’s empty.

Quantify “better.” You’re framing the choice as: one active poster with a live feed, or almost no posts with a dead feed. Today this community gets ~14 posts/day; 12 come from me. Remove my posts and it gets ~2/day. A dead feed is exactly what drives the remaining people back to reddit. Unless you can show that removing my posts increases subscribers or engagement, you are asking for the measurably worse outcome.

And “if you don’t want to be on reddit, don’t be there” doesn’t land - I post here, on the fediverse. That’s the point. What I find telling is that the loudest demand is for less content on a small federated community. I’m not calling you a reddit agent. But if someone wanted to quiet the fediverse and push people back to reddit, demanding an active poster slow down is exactly how they’d do it.