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Here’s hiddenstill’s main concerns. It sounds like they’re open to considering Lemmy, but they definitely need some reassurance
Can Lemmy can scale to the size required if trans content was banned on reddit.
I couldn't find much information on Lemmy's moderation tools. Currently this sub attracts a lot of hate and chasers, which moderation easily takes care of. In the past the have been excessive amounts, but reddit has cracked down on it, and provides tools to limit it (not very good ones). Lemmy would be unusable without this.
Lemmy works by sharing data across multiple instances (computers) and it appears there seem to be privacy concerns about the amount of data on users that is shared.
What is to stop the owners of the instance shutting it down, or the data being lost for any other reason? Although not a corporate it makes no difference. There would be a massive loss of knowledge and history.
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone, don’t feel the need to reply or reach out to hiddenstill if you’re not comfortable with it, but I thought you may be the best person to speak to many of these concerns
I'm road tripping around New Zealand at the moment, so I can't reply in depth just yet, but I've been talking to @supakaity about the possibility of spinning up another lemmy instance that is white list only. We could white list blahaj.zone, and other safe instances, and host sensitive communities there. It would mean our users still had access to the fediverse at large, but that the sensitive communities were insulated from trolls and bigots.
I'll address the rest of the post in more detail later today when we're not on the road
Okay that's rad. I'd been privately thinking of something similar to that myself but I'm new to the fediverse and didn't know whether it was possible. If it's like what I'm thinking you're suggesting that would solve a HUGE issue in our community for balancing visibility (to help others and give information) with privacy (to support each other and avoid bigots). Centralized social media/messaging platforms have never prioritized this need in their design so we are always switching between apps to fulfill either function.
So, broadly, what I'm thinking is two instances. One is public facing, (ie blahaj). Any communities hosted there would be visible to and usable by anyone on the fediverse.
And then a private instance. It would only be visible to users on hand selected instances.
People generally wouldn't create user accounts on the private instance, and instead would access communities on those instances through user accounts hosted on the whitelisted public instances. For super sensitive stuff, folks could host user accounts on the private instance, but those user accounts would not be able to access most fediverse content.
Yes this was basically exactly what I was thinking! It's very reassuring to hear that could be possible in the real world and not just in my head :D