Both can be true. We can welcome everybody who wants to come, and also realize that having 100 million complete noobs suddenly join wouldn't necessarily be the best outcome either.
Show people the way and if they indicate that it's too much effort to do a bit of research for 10-20 minutes, understand that it's not exactly a huge loss for them to not join.
You don't need paid mods. If you have a good community people will volunteer to moderate out of altruism, because they enjoy the community and want to make sure it stays good. Paid mods are actually worse than volunteer mods imo, because they don't actually care as much.
Yea he kept making new accounts and I kept banning them, so then he did that. Well, good luck with the rare deliriants my friend. Pour one out for me.
God damn you really do be litty right now.
I didn't take it as rude or insulting at all, you're just overthinking and paranoid bc you're high af.
Plus I've already taken an immense amount of abuse on Lemmy because I'm an admin, people always end up popping off on me no matter what I do. I see you've been here a long time so you may remember a few months after the APIcalypse when trolls were spamming the most disgusting stuff and I had to keep banning them as quickly as I could. This guy took it personally 😂
Yes this is the most efficient and foolproof method for dealing with bully mods, can confirm.
I feel like you're probably joking but that's a possum, not a doggo.
I was gonna make a joke about not trying to pet one of those or you might get rabies, but it actually seems that they have natural resistance to rabies and are generally pretty chill animals. TIL.
https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/what-do-about-opossums
I'm not making any claims that require sources or links, it's simply a philosophy and a fact of life, depending how you look at it.
Just because something is a rule and you may face consequences for breaking it, does not mean that you must follow it. You always have the choice and the option to refuse to follow a rule or a law.
Rules and laws are just strongly worded suggestions
Well, you can at least download all your reddit account information into a file that you can archive locally. I wanted to make sure my best puns were preserved at all costs 😅
That's actually not true. Lemmy.world and lemmy.dbzer0.com are fully federated, you can see for yourself if you check the instances tab.
The only thing that people incessantly complain about is that lemmy.world blocked one single community from dbzer0, the piracy community. For an account on lemmy.dbzer0, that has absolutely no effect. For an account on lemmy.world, that just means they need an alt if they want to participate in that one community. The two userbases can still fully interact all over lemmy, it's just that lemmy.world decided to block the piracy community to cover their asses legally.
Look, here's https://lemmy.world/c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
But people make such a big deal about that one blocked community that a lot of people get the idea that they are defederated or something. You're not the first person I've had to correct about this, not even the first this week lol.
Based and sh.it pilled
You can find the defederation info quite easily just by asking, or going to the blocked instance tab on whatever server you're wondering about.
Your other questions are somewhat ambiguous, so there's no easy way to simplify it into a data sheet. Because of the fact that the vast majority of instances are federated with each other, it also doesn't matter that much.
I don't think that kind of numerical information would really make the decision any easier, it'd be more likely to confuse people even further.
Servers are either general purpose or with a specific focus. Ani.social, ttrpg.network, slrpnk.net, are servers that clearly advertise the specific content they host and focus on. And obviously the geographical/language based servers (feddit.uk, aussie.zone, lemmy.nz) do the same thing. That's pretty easy to figure out imho.
The distribution of joined communities just seems way more complicated than necessary. Number of users is already the most widely available stat, just go to fedidb or lemmyverse and you can easily see the list of instances ordered by monthly active users.
https://lemmyverse.net/?order=active_month
I do think a cheat sheet about defederations would be nice to have though, I might try to make one when I have a chance.