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We can change and fix these things. Hexbear/Lemmy’s first mistake was trying to be like reddit instead of rethinking how users should interact entirely.
We started with what we had and are iterating from there. We’ve already had a lot of success (pronoun tags and usage, removing downvotes). We’ll see where things go, we’re looking forward to it.
The admins and sitemods are listed on the front of the site. We added a number of new ones today following the departures yesterday.
There are multiple comm mods you can find by checking the comms. They are varying degrees of active. A lot of general site moderation across comms is done by the sitemod as we receive reports.
The core dev team was around five people, and the two most active members left last night due to burnout from yet another struggle session. Other development work is also done by members of the community as they want to volunteer.
I’m not going to remove this even though it’s off topic and a request for additional work in a post about burn out. Doing so would look shitty and I don’t blame you for a follow up. We were working on a transparency report off and on between struggle session waves. We do not spend any funds on ourselves. Everything goes into a dedicated account and is used for hosting expenses.
Getting said report “right” is important and also we knew the moment we posted it, we’d inevitably have to deal with a wave of wreckers because finances are always an easy point of contention.
We were potentially too idealistic when promising this before launch. Given the amount of seemingly other small issues that blew up, there was a definite sense of dread and tiredness attached to the topic. Reports like that are not something other sites typically do because they’re time intensive to do well.
As we continue with the project we’ll try and put something together.
Maybe it’s too easy to blame wreckers, but it feels designed to be despiriting for everyone involved. Especially the way it comes in waves and always eventually gets turned on the volunteers keeping the place running.
The waves part and the timing of them are big giveaways.