Key difference is that Bitcoin people want/need their numbers to go up,up,up as a measure of success.
Here, we are hoping to cultivate a healthy community (at either/both the instance and fediverse level). From my experience on various subreddits, focusing on growth is not a good way to do this.
Communities are defined more by who is not allowed in than by who is in the community. Lemmy phase 2 kicked off back in June, and it still needs some time to find its footing at a sustainable rate of growth.
My hope is that this comm can grow to represent a “united left” faction of online Portland communities, now that people are trickling in.
It sucks that on r/Portland I almost always see left-of-liberal viewpoints in response to center-right comments that are so prominent there. It would be nice to have a place where constructive discussion can be had and opinions can be refined, since I know in real life such views are fairly well represented among our neighbors.
I hope that our mod @polymerwitch@lemmy.ml is sympathetic to cultivating this sort of space. At minimum they recognize here in this post the crimeblogging happening on the subreddit which is a significant issue.
Yeah that sucks tbh
r/Portland liberals: “We need to deal with the ‘homeless problem’. The city government should ‘crack down’ on them. Solutions that don’t involve harassing them are complicated and expensive, but someone should do something…”
r/PortlandOR chuds: “Let’s go out there ourselves and grind homeless people into a pulp ourselves instead of waiting for PPB to do it for us”
What do you mean by this?