From this announcement, in my opinion.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/213731

They’ve been essentially read-only for years, in my experience. It’s stupid to go closed source, but they weren’t easy to work with to get things fixed before now either.

Why are you trying to view everything and ban things you don’t like instead of viewing your subscriptions and only joining communities you do like?

I like some of those suggestions. However, I don’t think down voting or abstaining should be supported. You either support an option by up voting or you take no action.

Approval voting systems have well studied behaviors and we should not deviate from that without a compelling reason.

Every approval / upvote is a distinct user endorsement for an option. The option with the most users endorsing it should be selected when that number exceeds 51% of the active users set we decide on.

Excess should be used for bounties to get features we want implemented added to Lemmy.

A high enough bounty and they can hire a part-time developer to work on our selected improvement.

I don’t want people who haven’t agreed to follow the same set of rules deciding what the rules are that I must follow.

It’s like how much of the world decided it didn’t enjoy colonial rule so much.