On: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative...

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I'd expect that it's because if you have some new forum without (as many) restrictions, you get both:

- people who disagree with the restrictions of other places on principle and want a freer alternative

- people who can't say what they want to anywhere else, because it's generally disliked

and most people probably do not want to read stuff from the second group.