No shit that you need one person to make it and it is yourself.
The problem is your unrealistic expectations by how you’re making it sound like just making an instance means automatic success of a community by denying the reality of just how active the general community as a whole is. People just simply don’t have that kind of patience. I know I wouldn’t, so no, I’m not going to be making my instances.
Why make the millionth Games-related instance when the current ones should be improved upon?
Yeah but there’s a distinct difference and you can tell a Reddit-like way of moderating within a mile. They just can’t handle pretty much anything and they act moreso on their own personal belief, even believing their own interpretation of the rules they set up and expect people to follow than the actual reality of the matter.
A normal functioning moderator wouldn’t cater to every little pettiness and resort to prissy levels.
The problem with ‘making your own instance’ is, how little of active people there are to sustain such instances. You make it sound like we’re flourishing with millions of active users when we’re realistically seeing only five digit thousands and that’s being generous.
I don’t think it’s just downvotes that are the reason posts are deleted. What’s being ignored, is what follows after downvotes. And that is, users being antagonistic over nuanced posts because the posts don’t contain the kind of brainrot-meme-lamejoke kind of content that is the norm.
And it is never a good feeling getting dogpiled on for absolutely no reason other than just not appeasing to whatever expectancy that is there. Additionally, when there isn’t enough activity aside from that, people can feel like ‘what’s the point?’ because they simply don’t have enough numbers of people engaging.
So this creates this discouragement within them to keep bothering.
9/11? Terrorism.
London City Bombing? Terrorism.
Saying how much ICE sucks and Trump sucks? …Terrorism? Oh, terrorism of free speech. Got it.