Hmmm, when did you talk about the topic? I’m just remembering info from some of the issues that popped out not long after the exodus so either my memory is messing with me (happens often tbh) or they got more flexible with time.

They just want to stick to the platform being a link aggregator and not social media. Don’t remember the arguments because I haven’t read the issues on that for a while now.

Also lemmy devs refused to implement this after the exodus. If nothing changed then it won’t be implemented.

I also made this comment before I realised what the OP was trying to achieve. I thought he was downvoted because he asked “stupid” question as I was barely awake at this point. Haha

I still think some communities would benefit from disabling them though. But as you say there probably isn’t a way to achieve that with current lemmy.

This community urgently needs to be hosted on an instance without downvotes. Maybe there’s one somewhere.

@Blaze@reddthat.com you like migrating comunities to better places so maybe you could look into that. I don’t mind featuring the alternative community above this one when I implement discussion section in the directory.