CSAM is still unfortunately an issue on Lemmy. Just yesterday I had to contact an admin of the 2nd largest instance directly to get a post removed that had been up for several hours. Worst of all, it had more upvotes than downvotes. I do applaud the admin for taking action the minute I notified them, but it should never have been able to get that far.

Also, some of the issues involving Lemmy developers really remind me of major Minecraft servers back in the day lol. There's just an inability for the "helpers" to do much problem solving because of the lack of tools, and absolute reliance on the person at the top to take action. Even then, the person at the top doesn't always have the skill set necessary to solve the issues that arise.

I look forward to seeing how Sublinks goes, but without a good reason for users to migrate it could be dead on arrival.

[–] gabe@literature.cafe 14 points 8 months ago (13 children)

I agree quite a bit with your second point, as someone who used to run a Minecraft server long long long ass it was quite bad.

And yeah, I think there will be solid reasons to get users to migrate. But for the most part it wont really be needed as instances themselves will be able to convert lemmy instances to sublinks instances eventually. It wont require much effort from users unless they want to switch instances entirely.

[–] Just_Pizza_Crust@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (11 children)

I think there's a good chance people will leave once Lemmy integrates with Threads. So if you time things wisely, you can probably get a good base of users to swap their coms to Sublinks.

What's your planned policy for karma? I know users hated it, but as a reddit mod I found it super useful to determine between a misinformed user and a troll. If your plan for mod tools is as good as you're saying, I wouldn't mind going back to modding.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy integrates with Threads.

But isn't Threads a micro-blogging format, similar to Mastodon and Twitter, compared to the community-focused Lemmy and Reddit?

Can Threads display communities? Genuinely asking, I haven't had a look at that in a while

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Define display. Subscribing to a Lemmy community on Threads should "work", but won't be a pleasant viewing experience for your feed most likely.

They can, however, post directly to Lemmy communities should they wish, by @-ing the community.

Intermingling requires Threads users to specifically and actively seek Lemmy out.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If it's the same way that Mastodon displays Lemmy communities, and Lemmy users not being able to post to Mastodon, then people are probably not going to leave Lemmy for Threads.

Mastodon, on the other hand, is very much at risk.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Leaving Lemmy for Threads was never really a concern I heard from anyone, they are completely different services. Like you say, Mastodon is more at risk.

What people on Lemmy were concerned with was rather whether undesirable users on Threads could filter onto Lemmy and negatively affect the user experience here. With the magnitudes larger userbase, Threads users could potentially dominate the Hot feed if they started posting to Lemmy communities.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago

Good point.

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