Lemmy users are notoriously delicate. They cannot survive outside heavily moderated and curated online spaces.

Hence, gatekeeping is a needed tactic to ensure these spaces were they thrive keep a metastatic state.

In fact, a common practice in Lemmy is to gatekeep subjective experiences, like humor, art, memes, taste in music, movies or games.

You name it, you will have dozens of users telling you that “no, in actual fact, your subjective experience about <THING> is wrong, and has to conform to mine, or else”