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If you figure it out, let me know. I've created a couple communities that I liked from Reddit, but nothing. I believe people are just sticking to the top 5 instances and that's it. Kind of defeates the purpose of the fediverse. If lemmy.world went down, that would take half of the lemmy users with it.

I dont have much to add other than I am an experienced admin and was dismayed at how vulnerable Lemmy is. Having an option to have open registrations with no checks is not great. No serious platform would allow that.

I dont know of a bulletproof way to weed put the bad actors, but a voting system that Lemmy can leverage, with a minimum reputation in order to stay federated might work. This would require some changes that I'm not sure the devs can or would make. Without any protection in place, people will get frustrated and abandon Lemmy. I would.

I tried to upgrade via the instructions doing a git pull and then running ansible again and it totally broke my site with a server error message. I ended up reverting back to 0.17.4.

There could be a few reasons.

• They want to copy over their favorite content.
• They want to try to attract more people to a community by bootstrapping content.
• They are trying to artificially inflate their instance for nefarious reasons.

Personally, I think adding some of your favorite Reddit posts is fine as long as you don't blindly copy over everything from a subreddit. I have a couple communities that I brought over that I like, but without content, they mean nothing.

I belive > 50% are bot accounts, maybe more.

I wish my local city's community had more people, but I'm afraid they'll never move over. Oh well, i created it anyway.

I've also created a few others that will get buried.