A change in direction for the project this week?
Maybe the reputation of stability on lemmy.world and people realizing that the amount of activity really wasn't that high - and lemm.ee shutting out images. Most of all, Beehaw's criticism maybe finally resonated.
Beehaw was online a full year before Reddit - and saw just how long-term issues were not being addressed… maybe that is what it took.
It is worth keeping a positive eye on things.
On a positive note, an actual concern for data integrity expressed by core developer!
"This is a major issue with moderation, we should consider publishing the fix in an 0.18.5 release."
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3988
Although the project has an obsession over deleting data. Removing data. For communist flag waving project leaders, why is there such a focus on messages being deleted/removed? Why isn't it more like WIkipedia where commons is emphasized and terms-of-service emphasize that this is primarily a public forum and contributing to commons (communism?! hello?).