Hello all!
I’ve got a few things to announce.
We’ve grown by over 200 users since May 30. That’s about 28 users/day, which is huge compared to what it’s been before that. I’m very happy to see the increased activity, and hope this place (and lemmy/the fediverse in general) will become the goto spot for social interactions and link sharing. I’m excited for what the future will bring! Also thanks to many of you for making me laugh in your registration applications.
As this server grows, I think it would be a good idea to have some admins (I’m thinking 2 to start), to help with approving new user registrations, and dealing with Reports. Ideally, I’d like to leave most reports up to the community moderators, but for things that go against the site-wide rules, I’d like to have a team of 3 so we can deal with these things as a group. I haven’t fully decided on how I will pick the admins, but I will make another post when I’m ready to do that.
I’ve thought about a new logo for lemmy.ca. Are there any graphic designers here that would like to create a new logo? I don’t really have anything in mind other than something to do with Canada, obviously.
Lastly, since some users have asked, I’ve setup two places where users can donate to support the server. The monthly costs to run the server is currently around $25 CAD/month, which includes weekly backups (which I may change to daily). Anyways, donations are completely optional, but greatly appreciated! They can be made here:
https://liberapay.com/lemmy.ca/
https://opencollective.com/lemmy-ca
I’ll add those links to the main sidebar as well.
If you have any feedback for anything above, let me know!
Happy to see the place grow! Hope the new server is coping well, 😃.
I imagine you’ll have an even larger flood of users next Monday. Are user approvals required, or can they be automated?
they are basically only on because we fairly regularly got spammers/trolls, and the approvals have essentially stopped that completely. also, lemmy.ml was blocking instances that had open registrations (not sure if they still are?)
That’s gonna get tricky with any significant flood of users from Reddit.
agreed. i may open up registrations depending on how bad it gets.
It might be worth at least crowd sourcing it… have a few members indicate whether they think the applicant is human or a GPT instance, and then just look at those decisions to make the final call in batches. Takes some of the load off you, but still filters out the worst of the bots.
Maybe make a questionnaire that indicates pass/fail for applications? There are some standard psychology tests for psychopathic behavior for example. Maybe fail those. 😂
Blocks are manual and we dont have time to go through all the instances to check for open registrations. We block instances if there are lots of trolls or other unwanted content.