Not necessarily a bad thing. A lot of new users to the fediverse.
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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Yes very active. So active that, in fact, I keep seeing the same 1000 usernames all over Lemmy.
eh, reddit was like that for like the first 10 years
Even Digg. I still remember the complaints about mrbabyman.
Yeah, and it started sucking when it added more users.
Hopefully in 10 years, the moderation tools will be good enough to deal with a scaling userbase. What the fediverse needs is moderation subscriptions i.e subscribing to or unsubscribing from moderation actions of different groups or people.
For example, joining a community would subscribe you automatically to the moderation list of that community, but you could also unsub from the list if you don't like the mods there and sub to a group of people you trust more with mod decisions. Imagine if there's an overeager mod in the community you subbed to and you wanted to exclude the modding decisions - mod lists would allow that.
Anti Commercial-AI license
The issue to that is some moderation is mandatory by law, e.g. CP, copyrighted works. So mods still have to have the ability to remove data from the instances server completely, not just hide it. And instances probably also want to be able to have enforced rules on top of that.
I think what could do better is federating on communities level. So if you post or comment to memes community, it can post or comment to version of the community on multiple instances, each with different moderators.
You make a good point about legal moderation. Modlists could work on top of that.
"serverless" communities have been suggested multiple times and hopefully they will be implemented someday. It is a good idea.
Anti Commercial-AI license
That, and discovery algorithms that are user controlled maybe.
The front page of Reddit was the same 10 usernames for majority of the sites existence. I wouldnt be surprised if it was still the same users just using multiple accounts because so many people blocked their mains.
A thousand different people and you all recognise them by name? Sounds like a great community!
No just like 6 people and a ton of alts.
I swear FlyingSquid is the only poster on Lemmy.
That and ThePicardManeuver
No mention of Blaze?
Thanks !
@[email protected] anyone?
A part of this might be shared interes. The same people visit the same spaces.
See it as an opportunity to build tighter communities and friendships.