Timecube, eh? Haven't seen that in a hot minute. Or maybe four corner rotations of a hot minute.
In my opinion we're already more or less at the "functional" stage. I can browse the place and shitpost and stay entertained for quite a while, with new content coming in while I do it, so that if I'm so inclined I can spend a full day pissing away my time on lemmy. It's nowhere near Reddit yet, where I could pick any given topic and read almost infinitely on it, but that's a function both of time and size, and not a reasonable expectation for a brand new platform. As long as the numbers we have now are sustainable they'll become self-improving in that direction.
Well, this c is specifically for discussion of this instance, and you're having problems on a different instance. If you're getting nowhere talking to the mods of that specific community you could try looking for a meta community on that instance to talk about it. Lemmy.world has nothing to do with moderation in a different community on a different instance.
It seems to me you're probably in almost the wrongest place to ask.
I mean, they posted an announcement and stickied it to explain why. They also have rules posted in the sidebar. I guess they could also add a copy and pasted comment to each closed thread but is it really necessary?
What would that post have to do with the lemmy.world instance
Right? I'm liking Lemmy so far but the armchair activist "here's how we hurt Reddit" fixation is cringe as hell. I'm here to argue with strangers, look at cute animals, and read memes about tabletop games dammit. I'm here because I'm done with Reddit, not because I have some dumb chip on my shoulder and can't stop thinking about it.
I suspect you'll find that just in general, any global social media is going to have a lot of people who don't hold the US in very high esteem. It's not a Reddit thing.
Sorting by "new comments" can be a nice one if you're looking for discussions, I'm finding.
There are still a lot more people on twitter.
Hobbies are really the thing. And a source for funny videos. I don't need the big subreddits for politics and news, much as I tend to get sucked into them, but I do really like having a wide range of subforums for my niche interests. It's much easier to find someone to talk to about a small tabletop RPG on a large aggregate site than it is to search for sufficiently active independent forums.
There's no way to prevent it entirely. A larger community will slide that way.
I do think that it can be less encouraged though.