I’m a bit confused. is lemmy.world not meant for music? From what I gather lemmy.studio is a different instance which means I have to start a new account to make communities within it?

the standard of good-faith interactions on Beehaw will make a certain demographic stay

That demographic being people who think they’re better than others? There are nice people on lemmy.world too, you know. I’ve already seen you call people refugees in a kind of condescending manner. Practise what you preach mate… good luck with Beehaw.

Long term growth is necessary to keep any online community alive. Not necessarily accelerating growth. But if a community has less members coming in than the ones who leave over time it will eventually die, no matter what platform it’s on.

Sure, they’re allowed to do that. It’s their community. I haven’t seen any issues myself in lemmy.world, it’s been pretty welcoming to me so far.

I have to say, the sociology of this is kinda fascinating. It’s like we’re all part of different countries and the nationalism is already starting to crop up.

From what (admittedly little) I know about the fediverse I can’t see this being a good decision for Bee’s long term growth. I respect their stance but I simply think there isn’t enough content for small groups to sustain yet. Reddit thrives on a newsfeed style experience, if there’s nothing to scroll people won’t stay. The only reason I’m here is because I can scroll everything in all, which is how I found this post, for example.

Browsing for new content and communities is so much better here. Like, incredibly so. I don’t know if it’s just the lack of repost and karma bots or what but the quality of content is so much higher.