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I appreciate that he also takes time to focus on a positive message. Democracy, diversity, all that. Populist movements that celebrate diversity are just not that scary to me.

They don’t want to spend money on moderation. It’s cheaper to to ban everyone who displays “suspicious activity”, probably increasingly based on some machine learning algorithm, than it is to manually assess whether a user is spamming.

They have enough activity and people posting, so this is not a priority for them. What they are interested in is maximizing the number of lurkers/ad consumers. As long as there’s enough content to keep the lurkers addicted they’re happy: Additional comments does not make them money, and close-knit communities that are inaccessible to lurkers might actually decrease profits. Ideally the platform should have a quick, addictive, and impersonal content profile.