this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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Dang and I just made this account too. Time to find a new instance... Any recommendations? How is lemmy.today?
This whole process has looked sus to me. And on top of that, I don't think voting by up/downvoting the post itself is a good way to call votes
it means a minority can pass a rule without it being even seen by the majority (not sure that matters in this case). Voting should be done in a top-level comment.
Why do you think that?
People might not see the stickied post, for whatever reason. I'm mostly on X hours top, which hides the thread if older than X hours. Or someone could just not use Lemmy for a week. There is no notification or similar, no email alert.
I would argue that this would be the minority of users, not the majority.
Are there stats for how much voting eligible users there are, and how much of them actually vote on governance topics, or see (click on) governance topics?
No