I can see why they need to do it, they apparently only have 4 main mods for the entire server. with the limited mod tools available at the moment that is completely impossible to manage.

I hope they can get past this hurdle.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've got to learn Rust like a madman so I can help implement mod tools. That's honestly the main bottleneck alongside discoverability.

Elsewhere in the thread right now there's an open troll. On Reddit you get silenced at -100 karma. What happens on Lemmy? Anything?

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As far as I know there are no automod functions currently, so until a human mod manually deletes or bans that user, it will just stay there.

Tools will come, the code for the platform is fully open and the API well documented, so it wont be long before large communities can function fully federated with reasonable moderation.

[–] Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

It doesn't help that notifications are pretty nonexistent at times. You have to actively go to an instance via browser, or open jerboa to find out anything is going on. Well, I haven't found any other way to get mod notifications, and I've tried a couple of times.

So, for non admin mods to help out there, they'd have to commit to a higher degree of focus than what most people can offer.

[–] iorale@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can see why they need to do it, they apparently only have 4 main mods for the entire server

Why would they think that would be enough to withstand the waves from reddit? That was just a disaster waiting to happen.

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

happened too fast for them I guess.

once better mod tools or possibly an invite only read-only sort of solution is available they would re-open to other large instances.

[–] iorale@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I honestly doubt they'll open again, they'll get so used to their safe-space that they won't be able to handle all the shitposting.
And we know mod tools can only do so much, if they couldn't handle it with not so many users, I don't know what are they going to do later if more instances keep appearing and growing.