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Cake day: September 24th, 2024
  • Leaf (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoFedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Mod of r/Transgender_Surgeries has posted an edit to their post addressing Lemmy with questions and things to considerEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Can a single instance handle a community of 100k members? Can this one? What’s the limit?

    The theoretical limit depends on the server hardware behind the instance.

    There’s an incredible amount of hate and chasers on reddit, and if you had to rely on manual moderation I don’t think anyone could cope. You may not be seeing it here because Lemmy is smaller, not as well know, and appears to be a bit harder to use and keeps out the idiots. The sub moderation is part of it, with lots of automated filtering (which is why the people from Lemmy were having trouble posting in the sub), but the site also keeps them suppressed. When it didn’t it was really bad.

    The admins of Blahaj.Zone are strict with those kinds of messed up individuals. Lemmy instances often defederate from the troll farms like Hexbear for example. It’s a lot harder for trolls and chasers to organize in this bloc of instances for example as the mods/admins are very on top of things. They use the tool fediseer to check out if an instance is trustworthy enough for their users/communities to interact with ours.

    I agree with you that the moderating tools on Lemmy could be better but as more people switch to this platform the higher the demand would be for developers to upgrade the tools to be more robust. They have come a long way from 2023.

    When Reddit killed almost all the third-party apps a lot of moderating and accessibility features were forever lost due to the company’s decision to charge outrageous fees for api access but not only that but they adamantly refused to work with developers who extended an hand to work out a deal within the new limits.