I agree. The lemmyverse still need to grow to have any chance of lasting beyond the next year or so
Comment on lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All of this seems good to me except 4 - I hate the thought of any instances being invited only. I’d much prefer it was just a verified user approach (even just an email) with a waiting period for doing things like posting images. Maybe even limit newish users after that period to a small number of image posts a day.
Making an instance feel like a club is going to turn off a lot of people. For sure do what you need to do, but I hope you can avoid that one.
eyy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Lyrl@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If volunteer admins are at their limits, tools to enable admins to manage larger communities needs to come before further growth. Yes, lemmy needs an order of magnitude growth to be able to seriously compete on content, but outgrowing admin capacity is not a sustainable path.
iquanyin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
yes. very sound thinking there. many problems in life can be skipped by some forethought and timing. don’t invite folks for dinner before your kitchen is fully built.
CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Strongly agreed. Lemmy needs to grow. I badly miss many smaller communities that are only viable with Reddit’s size. Making prominent instances invite only (or requiring approvals or closing sign ups entirely – as some other instances have done) is just going to hurt Lemmy as a whole.
Treating new accounts with a lot more scrutiny makes sense to me. We could require the first few comments to have mod approval to even show them (probably more of a per community setting since it would likely have to depend on community mods), restrict images for some period, have more aggressive content filters on young accounts, etc.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep, that’s the right idea. Can’t be anything that’s too labor intensive for the mods, that that’s the right thinking.