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How did Lemmy World become the default instance?
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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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The are in the top 5 biggest instances (and programming.dev changed their own account of active users recently), so statistically that makes sense.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Together, they make up ~~a bit more~~ less than 50% of active users, yet basically all far-right trolls are from there. You could say it is more difficult to moderate big instances, but if you have more users to moderate, you should also increase moderating capacity or close registrations.
Interesting, my personal experience has been more spread, including a few very toxic users on lemme.ee.
We do not make up for 50% of the active users. Also we have plenty of moderators and admins, reports get handled pretty fast. It's up to the community moderators first but if it takes too long one of the admins will step in.
And we will never close registrations.
I remember it used to be higher, now it is approx. 41%. Only strengthens my point, though.
I see different things. There are quite some trolls and abusive accounts that don't seem to get removed.
I'm just saying the moderation has to improve in some way.
That doesn't say much about LW besides being the biggest instance - because trolls beeline towards larger audiences.
Closing registrations might be the sensible approach here. Because the necessary moderation grows exponentially, and eventually too large of a mod/admin team becomes a problem on its own.
The barrier of an application is enough to scare off most non-serious users. I used to favor open registration, but after making an account and participating on an instance with open registration vs closed, I found the closed registration shuts down a lot of bad actors and makes the instance a more pleasant community.
I'm not even advocating for rejecting any of the applications, just having questions to answer before joining seems to significantly cut down on the trolls.
I dont know why you're getting down voted, as a moderator basically all the "death to brown people" comments I have to delete are from that shithole and lemm.ee.