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In reply to @amy0223.

@amy0223 @wesderby @SingingNala Moderation ultimately isn't a problem with a technological solution. I mean there are technological things you can use to get the job done, but if you don't get the social bit right it'll fail. Also, modera tion is impossible to do well at scale, so if you can try to keep the community small, or have enough moderators to handle specific channels, or one moderator for every 10 or 20 people. +

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Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:

Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.

Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we’re not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.

Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.

—@saramg

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This is a must-read post from an admin of beehaw.org on why they will not be forking #Lemmy. I largely agree with @Gaywallet@beehaw.org.

Lemmy may not be perfect. Perhaps it’s even problematic. However, it makes the world less worse than it already is — and less worse is better than worse.

That’s what’s important to me.

Now if Lemmy proves to be too much of a barrier, there is #Kbin. But since Kbin is so young, it’s not a perfect replacement for Lemmy either — though it’s turning out great.

My own goal is to facilitate growth of the Fediverse. For this, #SpaceHost will be supporting both Lemmy and Kbin.

RE: https://beehaw.org/post/524300

—@atomicpoet

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People often ask me, “How do I interact with Lemmy”?

Well, in my previous post, I just interacted with Lemmy by quoting @Gaywallet@beehaw.org‘s post. If you’re on Calckey or Misskey (or anything that supports quotes), this will look seamless.

On Mastodon, the Lemmy post will be rendered as a URL. If I wanted to make that Lemmy post look like “native Mastodon”, I could have just boosted it, but I wanted to add additional commentary.

The point, though, is that I’ve interacted with a Lemmy post on a platform that is not Lemmy. This is possible through ActivityPub. The Fediverse is quite magical in that sense.

If you’re on Mastodon, Pleroma, Calckey, etc., I urge you all to follow Lemmy and/or Kbin communities and users and start interacting with them. It’s important that former Redditors see a bustling community.

—@atomicpoet