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!”.
I tend to abandon all my online accounts from time to time and make new ones for privacy reasons, and IMO everyone should do the same, together with using different names for every website.
Unfortunately the trend is for people using the same accounts that they made when they were 12 for the rest of their lives.
If people were more conscious about their privacy and pseudo-anonymity then I think there would be less bias against new accounts.
I haven’t seen this on lemmy, but on reddit there are whole communities that you can’t post if you don’t have an old account.
!technology@lemmy.world block posts from accounts under 10 days old.