@lemmyadmin - eviltoast

eviltoast admin

  • 14 Posts
  • 34 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 11th, 2023

help-circle




  • I could be totally wrong but my take on it is that they’re just wanting the community to handle it so they can work on other parts of lemmy. They at least don’t seem like they’re against better mod tools.

    day-to-day mod and admin actions on this instance are pretty low. Bigger instances like LW probably would have more reason to complain :D


  • IMO I don’t think it is something the lemmy devs are focused on, but there is a growing community creating helpful tools around moderation/federation/maintenance. There were some core features added like mods being able to see downvotes to detect mass downvoting, and open issues for things like an invite system.

    LemmyAutomod is an example of a community effort. I saw some other similar bots posted too.













  • eviltoast adminMAtoeviltoast.orgUpdate to 19.0?
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Hello and welcome!

    I was holding off on 0.19.0 because of some performance issues other instances were having. It looks like that is probably fixed now though with 0.19.1 released today.

    Unless there are any more big issues, it’ll probably happen in the next day or so.



  • eviltoast adminMAtoeviltoast.org*Permanently Deleted*
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    👋 I am leaning towards defederating w/ Threads. Lemmy 0.19.0 does have a feature to block instances at the user level, and I was thinking that might help when we upgrade. But with so many users on threads (compared to lemmy), I don’t think it’d be hard for threads to overwhelm everything.

    I’m not even sure what sort of load impact it will have on servers. I can imagine a lot of instances will accidentally ddos themselves just by following stuff on threads.



  • eviltoast adminMAtoeviltoast.org*Permanently Deleted*
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    There isn’t really a thought out stance on it so far.

    I know a lot of instances are planning on preemptively blocking or defederating from threads, but I haven’t decided if that’s overkill or not.

    I think it depends on if it ever actually happens, and also whether it ends up causing any issues. It probably won’t get blocked by default, but we also don’t want to get defederated and siloed from other instances.

    What are your thoughts on it?




  • eviltoast adminMAtoeviltoast.orgI like this Instance
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    There are, but I think people are still leaning towards the bigger instances by default. Probably part of existing users on those instances recruiting more people and suggesting to use the same instance instead of finding a different one. A lot of reddit threads were linking directly to lemmy.world for example.

    I saw some talk about lemmy clients implementing some sort of random sign-up where it puts new users on random instances, or at least shows a list of instances they could choose from. I’m not sure if that’s the solution, but it’d be an improvement imo.