the lead admin just got burnt out. He asked the community for volunteers to moderate the instance and apparently nobody showed up.
:-/
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simple@lemm.ee 2 days agoThat’s not what happened. It wasn’t any more or less toxic than any other place on the internet, the lead admin just got burnt out. He asked the community for volunteers to moderate the instance and apparently didn’t get any good applications.
So he’s shutting down the instance next month. It wasn’t dysfunctional or toxic, he just sacrificed a lot and AFAIK never even broke even with server costs.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I’ve nodded some small but active enough to need real coverage subs on reddit. It’s a real job. People are too weird to self-moderate.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Yeah, I gave volunteering a good, long think because I’m mostly sure I’ve got the right proficiencies for it, but my plate’s already overflowing as it is. I like lemm.ee, but when I sat down and considered my priorities IRL, I am legitimately sorry to say that it didn’t make the cut. I guess everyone else did that same math.