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  Watermarking is great when there is a strong enough community to make original content. I'm sure there are communities like that, but I'm not in many of the hobby communities here.

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  I budget my donations so I make an effort to see who I think need it the most. For example, I use Tor daily, but they have huge institutional funding. My to-do list app doesn't. There are also some worthy candidates who simply reject donations, like Handbrake. A few I haven't seen mentioned: - Small websites anyone can use for FOSS services, like (e.g. Private.coffee, Disroot, Nadeko, Riseup) - Any of [the 5 remaining Invidious instances](https://docs.invidious.io/instances/), Google...

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  As for the title question: Do we need more users ? We don’t need more users. It might be nice, there are benefits, but we don’t need it. I agree with you on not caring much about growth-as-a-target, “growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell”. I was here years before the first big reddit exodus with the third-party API changes and I was having a good time back then too.

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  It's pretty funny to see someone travel to a lemmy.ml thread and complain about lemmy.ml users being there.

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  > What’s the actual point of holding someone back from joining your online community if they don’t have enough “points” on their comments or posts? It is a legitimate anti-abuse tactic. Like you've mentioned, there are obvious flaws, but it does help prevent brigadiers, advertisers and other bad actors from easily spinning up throwaways to harass or manipulate a community. Another way to do this could be account age testing, but this can be defeated by pre-registering empty accounts.

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  Perhaps its too late for the largest instances, but the idea of a site like this being a spectator activity, about consumption, rather than creating *communities*. Some smaller instances, and even some larger ones, have an actual unique atmosphere and have larger projects across the instance. When we suddenly got a flood of reddit users escaping from the third-party API fiasco and the Luigi bans, that was huge enough to dilute some of the communities with large amounts of people used to simply v...

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  Perhaps even hockey with referees replaced by [boxing refs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTtniB6nKg0). (yes, it's impossible to find that video without loud music)

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  Adblockers have been mentioned a hundred times, as they should. Annual reminder to donate to [Invidious](https://invidious.io/) too. YouTube has done some serious work to try and block most of the instances.

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  Just as an anecdotal side note, just this year I found a typo (92 instead of 82) contradicted by a quote attached to the cite reference later in the paragraph, and very easily noticed if one checks. I only use VPNs so I can’t fix it.