atypicaloddity

Comment whenever you want, but based on Reddit I wouldn’t expect a reply after a thread is more than ~2 days old. That may end up being different here.

For sure – I just don’t want kbin to get forgotten about, because it’s got the exact same issues that got Lemmy.world delisted: a quickly growing userbase with open signup and limited moderation tools.

I see that in both the original post and now this update that the focus has been on improving tooling for Lemmy specifically. I’m worried that kbin isn’t having the same focus on moderation tools. Anyone have some insight into kbin’s roadmap?

There’s a possible future where major fediverse sites switch to whitelisted federation to deal with spam etc. At that point, your small instance would have to petition all the major players to be let in. That would probably kill off most small instances.

I think it’s totally fine for instances that want to be small and community-focused to not be federated with the greater pool of the internet. Especially when, as they’ve said, the moderation manpower and tooling isn’t there to handle the extra users.

Personally, I wouldn’t want to join a place like that (I’ve never been a fan of message boards or other niche communities), but it’s their place and their rules.