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this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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i mean... yeah? it's not every day you suddenly have 5x the number of total users on your site visiting the site per minute because a major corporation just did something extremely unpopular with no forewarning. if we had that kind of clairvoyance, i'd be a millionaire and running this site would just be my full-time job. this strikes me as an irrational critique informed by the hindsight you have now, weeks after it began.
this is primarily because they have more permissive rules and no defined ethos they're trying to upkeep—or at least, they don't have the latter in a way that requires constant maintenance. (as a point of note last i checked, lemmy.world didn't even have listed rules, per se,[^1] so it'd be hard to parse what's even not allowed as a user besides "actively illegal content") we, by contrast, have a very clear idea of what we want—we spent a year thinking about it, and we're at a year and a half of making it reality—so defederation in the absence of better mod tools is an extremely obvious way to maintain that. actually it's the only tool we have in a lot of cases, which is a gripe we have with Lemmy that we're trying to solve
[^1]: although Ruud has told us he'll moderate hate speech, bigotry, etc. from the top, so implicitly those aren't supposed to be allowed. i question how viable doing this is with such an open-registration policy, more-or-less unvetted mods, and lots of communities to keep track of but i suppose all instances here can be thought of as large-scale experiments right now
Every time I start a new project my first thought is obviously "how would this scale to hundreds of thousands of people?" (I tried breadmaking over the pandemic help)