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.
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.