Our goal is to make Lemmy the best place it can be. Whether that recreates another platform or not
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2025
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Why?!?! Don’t you like it here? You realize the quality degrades as more ppl arrive?
Dont be a traitor, keep your mouth shut.
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You can’t
I fear that Lemmy will not scale properly, popularity will exponentially increase the load. It’s basically actions multiplied by instances
The nature of the fediverse means bad actors could run rampant, jumping instances and usernames to turn the place into a shitshow.
The only reason it isnt happening already is that we arent worth the trouble.
The only way to avoid it once a certain size is reached is a paid moderation team with a mission statement to stamp that shit out, which means a budget is needed which means backers/investors/advertising... and tou get where this is going.
One thing desperately needed is a method for mods/admins to check for brigading behaviour. This place (the threadiverse, not this community specifically) is crawling with more reactionary toxicity than almost anywhere I've ever seen, but it's mostly cowardly ignorant people silently hammering the downvote button rather than saying out loud the thing that would get them insta-banned.
Also real blocks are needed - all we have right now is a glorified 'mute'. If I block an asshole, not only is it because I don't want to see their BS, but I also don't want them to be able to see my posts & comments, at least not from that account.
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