We need to take all of those guides with grain of salt. It's pretty common for them to not be that true. The "cool" part describes the looks of those guides more than anything.

Hmmm, when did you talk about the topic? I'm just remembering info from some of the issues that popped out not long after the exodus so either my memory is messing with me (happens often tbh) or they got more flexible with time.

They just want to stick to the platform being a link aggregator and not social media. Don't remember the arguments because I haven't read the issues on that for a while now.

Also lemmy devs refused to implement this after the exodus. If nothing changed then it won't be implemented.

I also made this comment before I realised what the OP was trying to achieve. I thought he was downvoted because he asked "stupid" question as I was barely awake at this point. Haha

I still think some communities would benefit from disabling them though. But as you say there probably isn't a way to achieve that with current lemmy.

Idk if comments boost post but boost.

Edit: damn, I commented to give op more reach and got downvoted. 😂