Like, I’m probably answering myself here but I think it is pointed out by gatekeepers who can’t stand the idea of community growth and everything should adhere to some other unfound arbitrary way to keep things ‘pure’ in a community.
When they forget that they too, started out as new and that they too probably have had other people sneer at them for simply being new. So now they go around and pretend this is some kind of ultimate shut-down insult to people who’re just trying to contribute to the fediverse by devaluing it by saying “OH U JUST SOME DAY OLD ACCOUNT, NOBODY SHOULD MIND THEM!”.
See for example, @nehare@lemmy.world. Account is four hours old, 52 articles posted, zero comments/engagement with the community. Will probably be gone by tomorrow.
Just the other day a bot showed up (galacticWaffle) that was making long, engaging comments on pretty much every post on .World. No one would have known it was a bot if it hadn’t been posting an impossible number of comments per minute. A lot of us engaged with it until people started following it around calling it out. Felt bad man.
I think people just need to know that you are a person before they trust you as a new neighbor. The norm lately is for brand new accounts not to be.