I only joined during the (modest) Reddit migration in June but I don’t think a single new moderation tool has been added since then despite all the momentum. Lots of apps (most of which have already been abandoned) though so that’s at least something.
It’s ironic that the Reddit to Lemmy migration occurred precisely because of the moderation issues of the former. Yet the dev seems to deprioritize this aspect for some reason. This is sad. I do hope Kbin will get a larger traction.
I really can’t be too hard on the devs, this is a completely volunteer operation, and the massive influx led to all kinds of very foundational issues related to scaling. As I said in another comment a day or two ago, I think many are focused on just keeping the wheels from falling off the car that is their own instances right now.
Realistically, I think the only way they can right the course is for several instances to go on hiatus that are run by people who can contribute 10 to 20 hours a week developing the platform. I am also making a number of assumptions, such as there is a big overlap between developers and people running instances.
I don’t think there is a big overlap. The main devs are hosting lemmy.ml and lemmygrad as far as I know. All the other ones are hosted by other people.
That’s frustrating. I think Kbin recently improved it’s moderation tools quite a lot, but I’m not involved enough to really have an overview.
I checked out Lemmy for the first time ten months ago from a thread that was shared on Mastodon, it was a completely different product back then. I agree moderation tools need to be a high priority, but there’s little doubt the platform has improved a lot over the last year. It saw a sudden growth that nobody was really prepared for, and all in all I think it is impressive how well it has gone so far. Moderation still seems to be better than certain commercial platforms. ;)
I definitely think the moderation itself is better because there is a stronger pool of people doing it, but we are just so severely limited by what we are able to do. For starters, there are no tiers of moderators. You don’t have like a “prime“ and then lower levels with different tiers of access. You basically have to give total control to another moderator, which is a huge risk.
I only joined during the (modest) Reddit migration in June but I don’t think a single new moderation tool has been added since then despite all the momentum. Lots of apps (most of which have already been abandoned) though so that’s at least something.
It’s ironic that the Reddit to Lemmy migration occurred precisely because of the moderation issues of the former. Yet the dev seems to deprioritize this aspect for some reason. This is sad. I do hope Kbin will get a larger traction.
I really can’t be too hard on the devs, this is a completely volunteer operation, and the massive influx led to all kinds of very foundational issues related to scaling. As I said in another comment a day or two ago, I think many are focused on just keeping the wheels from falling off the car that is their own instances right now.
Realistically, I think the only way they can right the course is for several instances to go on hiatus that are run by people who can contribute 10 to 20 hours a week developing the platform. I am also making a number of assumptions, such as there is a big overlap between developers and people running instances.
I don’t think there is a big overlap. The main devs are hosting lemmy.ml and lemmygrad as far as I know. All the other ones are hosted by other people.
Ah makes sense. Do you think they just don’t have enough people working on it?
Yes it’s a resources problem, I think so. If enough people donate then they might be able to pay a full time employee to work on it full time.
That’s frustrating. I think Kbin recently improved it’s moderation tools quite a lot, but I’m not involved enough to really have an overview.
I checked out Lemmy for the first time ten months ago from a thread that was shared on Mastodon, it was a completely different product back then. I agree moderation tools need to be a high priority, but there’s little doubt the platform has improved a lot over the last year. It saw a sudden growth that nobody was really prepared for, and all in all I think it is impressive how well it has gone so far. Moderation still seems to be better than certain commercial platforms. ;)
I definitely think the moderation itself is better because there is a stronger pool of people doing it, but we are just so severely limited by what we are able to do. For starters, there are no tiers of moderators. You don’t have like a “prime“ and then lower levels with different tiers of access. You basically have to give total control to another moderator, which is a huge risk.