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What kind of network is Lemmy looking to be? (leminal.space)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just joined Lemmy and so far I'm enjoying it. It's a little bit sparse in terms of content and users, but I think it has a really cool structure, and it feels more human than certain other social media sites.

I'm curious to know what users think about who is welcome here. Do you think it should be gates open, everyone including your aunt should join, or is it more exclusive to people interested in the fediverse as a starting point? Or something else?

Not trying to stir up shit, just genuinely curious about what the vibe is and where the community thinks it is or should be going.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

What do you want it to be? Read up on moderation and how that's handled, host your own instance, contribute to the fediverse. Self hosted social media comes with it's own challenges however you can get as much out of this as you put in.

I would point you two places as far as research on self hosting, db0 and eviltoast.org.

Db0 has a great AI moderation tool, eviltoast was recently plagued by a troll bot that kept creating new accounts and spamming threads with some pretty annoying posts.