"the company looked at the history of social media over the past decade and didn’t like what it saw… existing companies that are only model motivated by profit and just insane user growth, and are willing to tolerate and amplify really toxic content because it looks like engagement… "
Yah, I’m going to need a citation on that claim.
Edit: Too many people are misunderstanding this post, so I’m removing its contents. To clarify: No checks exist in the current version of Lemmy - these were parts of previous versions.