Unless anyone knows another reason for this impressive increase in comments? Seems to roughly coincide with Sync launching. If thats the case, just goes to show the importance of good third party apps.
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
EDIT: Looks like a confusingly labeled graph and I think this is total comments. I have no idea why that spike could exist though.
Agreed wholeheartedly.
And like someone posted about we're not constantly policing ourselves with /s because the folks here are adults. On reddit it had gotten so vitriolic I didn't post often because someone was going to jump you for having a differing opinion or to express their faux outrage that you liked cheese on broccoli or whatever.
Let's just hope everyone stays understanding and able to keep minor differences unfought. I hope the option of defederation helps in that regard.
I watched that happen today, but they were arguing that Tim Martin of Wetherspoons fame is a nice guy.