If you go to lemmy.ml it's just a bunch of fucking redditors with their dogshit memes and like three lemme users. It's sad. I strongly encourage users of this site who are so inclined to take a break from infighting to bully neoliberals over there.
If you go to lemmy.ml it's just a bunch of fucking redditors with their dogshit memes and like three lemme users. It's sad. I strongly encourage users of this site who are so inclined to take a break from infighting to bully neoliberals over there.
lemmy is experiencing their lifeboat dilemma rn. the unfortunate fact is that when you signal a sinking vessel, you're not gonna only have friends on the boat afterwards. in their case, they signaled towards redditors, and now they have too many redditors on their forum, which has made it very reddit, to no one's surprise. they have, unfortunately, marketed to a non-ideal demographic.
honestly, with federation, I don't really see the need for lifeboatting onto specific pre-established spaces within the fediverse. I don't think it's productive. The point, in my eyes, to carve out a separate space in the network for the lifeboat.
The problem is that space must be created for them to go to, and when someone makes a new space, people then have to choose between a new, empty place, and the place where there are already people.
I think you just need a good mod:newbs ratio and any tools that can support those mods (like quarantining newbs or rate-limiting them, etc).
Not that this is easy, but it is at least a simple and actionable thing.