Slowly exploring the lemmy ecosystem, since I don’t want to use reddit, and was wondering if selfhosting would be a good idea?

    • deejay4amEnglish
      14•2 years ago

      Eh, kinda. lemmy doesn’t have super great moderation tools yet, and the influx of users on lemmy.world and lemmy.ml included people posting some content that was against beehaw’s moderation guidelines. Rather than deal with being overwhelmed without much option, they decided to temporarily defederate until there was a clear path to resolving the issue (i.e. better mod tools).

      I think people are making it out to be a bigger deal than it really is, and those flames are probably being stoked by the trolls.

      There are plenty of “no actually assault weapons are good for society” and “actually Ukraine is the aggressor” groypers around now, but I guess that just means Lemmy is getting popular enough to attract the masses - which in the end is a net positive.

      • HobbitFoot English
        6•2 years ago

        I also feel like users assume Lemmy is a lot more developed than it is.

        Reddit went through several back end changes as it grew over time, and Lemmy has done very little in that regard.

        You also have such a small user base that Lemmy isn’t important. Once Lemmy becomes important, it is going to need to deal with a lot of issues that it currently isn’t designed to deal with.

        Lemmy is going to need to learn to scale.

      • @RedirectedPotatoOPEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        Ah ok, thanks. Thats rather interesting. I wonder how they are going to address that.