every site (well not every site obviously) has their place and their time. I remember MySpace but I do not miss it

i was mostly a lurker but good call. will search while it's an option!

sure it can. since deleting all accounts the only reason I ever visit Reddit these days is because of search. so yeah make sure I never have a reason to come back

deleted my account on Sunday. never going back.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html I guess that it provides some metric of how relevant a community is and I presume in the future it could be tied into ranking of ratings of posts and comments

a question remain - while I think the requirement to engage to be counted as active will certainly increase engagement generally - will it lead to "quality" content and comments? not that I currently know exactly how you quantify quality

I think there's a greater chance of lemmy users interacting rather than just lurking because of the requirement of posting or commenting to be counted as active which should in turn help grow the community