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Did Reddit get massive because of Digg users making a beeline towards them or were they already big before that?

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[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

See what heavy moderation did to Reddit?

I was a moderator on Reddit off and on for like six years, so yes I did. Heavy moderation is the only thing that kept larger communities on topic - r/Askhistorians being the shining example. The amount of effort required to keep spaces from devolving into low effort hodpodges of memes and such was notable.

But it was worth it. Lemmy will grow, and moderation will probably have to grow as well, but I hope that the mod-user relationship here will be healthier and we can rely more on good faith interpretations of rules so we don't need to resort to pages of detailing no one will read.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

r/Askhistorians being the shining example.

You are so right about this! I will goto whatever service has that again

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

And how do you filter out the heavy handedness of mods like what was on WhitePeopleTwitter where if you didn’t fall in line with whatever agenda they followed, you were banned and reported to Reddit admin?

With growth, you can expect this to happen here.

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Well I expect that the federation model that allows multiple communities to grab the same namespace combined with instance admins that will be more active in removing openly hostile users and mods will help.

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