How can we make it more popular?
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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Lemmy needs proper moderation tools. Currently if someone posts an image you have to take like a dozen steps in a command line to delete it, and it doesn't delete from federated instances when removed by moderators.
So let's say you access lemmy.world through lemmy.film. Anything federated to lemmy.film through lemmy.world that's deleted due to content moderation will still appear on lemmy.film until it's deleted manually.
Couple this with an influx of malicious users and you've got a nasty situation on your hands that isn't sustainable for instance hosts while putting them at significant legal risk.
On the user experience end of things, people seem determined to flood the all feed with bot spam and it seems as though the more hostile tide of reddit users and plants sponsored by bad actors have showed up to play.
Lemmy's devs need to give some indication that they can even be bothered to glance in the direction of producing more robust moderation and federation tools if it's going to keep its momentum. User-level instance blocking would help a lot too.
Lemmy is only developed by 2 people full time. They have no where near the manpower of Reddit. Things just take time.
That's definitely a fair take, but it doesn't really eliminate the issue. I know Beehaw offered to pay to have some of this stuff done and were turned down. With the project being as substantial as it is, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to accept some of that money and hire a third set of eyes.
I understand many of the 3rd party apps are implementing mod tools on top of the native lemmy functionality, so you might want to look into that