My usual concern with force redirecting people to "where the stuff is popular" is that it promotes centralization, which is the literal opposite of why we're here. Besides, as I've commented some other times, the feasibility of user participation is not transitive across instances. !soccer@sports.xyz might have a completely different rules, mood or culture than !soccer@euro.pe , or the redirect might lead to !soccer@ya.ml which is blocked in my country or otherwise made unavailable. (I am using examples here ofc but I guess this could very well hit people in and around feddit.uk, for one).
There is literally no punishment for keeping a community open so it can sometime either grow organically or die organically. Locking them however, fully prevents either option.
...¿Acaba el ex ministro de minería de declarar en televisión que no hubiesen luchado para rescatar a los mineros en el caso de San José si no hubiese habido gente que auditara y que vigilara a la empresa?
En el contexto de lo que están diciendo los familiares de los afectados en el ahora caso El Teniente, suena harto sospechoso. Y varias autoridades están diciendo "más tarde buscamos culpables, mañana".
El diablo dice "mañana".