I imagine there’s excitement for the increase of activity but worries about the potential toxic side of Reddit coming along too.

I’d especially be interested in the Lemmy devs’ opinions.

  • Pisck@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I have enough faith in the moderators and the structure of the platform itself that there shouldn’t be too much of a toxicity problem.

    My concern: Are there enough moderators for the deluge coming?

    • DudePluto@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Maybe not for the initial deluge, but with sustained growth the number of mods will grow too

    • darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.partyEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Maybe, maybe not, but the instances have the option of closing registrations for a bit if they get overwhelmed and need to regroup. This is why it’s nice to see lots of other instances popping up across the fediverse

      • Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Maybe I’m missing something but how will that help the moderation, since users can visit/comment from any instance?

        • darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.partyEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Yep - but each user needs to be approved by an admin. So if things started getting rowdy I’m sure admins would close things on the bigger instances to focus more on modding, and de-fed rowdy instances that can’t keep up at least temporarily.