lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
## Hey everyone We’re really sorry to say this, but lemm.ee [http://lemm.ee] will be shutting down on June 30, 2025. ### What you need to know As of now: - New user registrations are disabled - Creating new communities is disabled What you should do: - You can export your settings at https://lemm.ee...
This really makes me wonder if we should have more admins here on Blahaj in case Ada ends up feeling burnt out. I don't really see Kaity around at all so it's just her doing the moderation for the whole instance.
If I could add an instance level moderator that didn't have full admin permissions, I'd do so in a heart beat. As it is though, it's hard to trust the keys to the castle when the only avenue for building trust is lemmy interactions.
That being said, we do have a bot admin that trusted users have access to, that Kaity developed, which helps us deal with spammers and throwaway bigot accounts.
Also, we don't actually have that much going on in terms of moderation workload. Our sign ups are manually approved, but our bot helps with that so it's not all on me. Our large communities have active mods. So I'm lucky if I have to look at more than 3 or 4 reports a day.
Also, if we ever reach the burnout point, we would hand the community over before taking it down.
It's really good to hear that you would hand the community over before shutting it down. As for right now though, I think there could be a more public face to this extended moderation team? .World has their "server moderators", who I think work via bot as well, quite publicly talked about and empowered to interact with the community. I think that might be a way to achieve a balance, and would mean that reports that require interaction can be seen to outside of your own timezone.
I don't know, it's not like there are moderation issues right now, but it would give you the capacity to take yours eyes off things for a day or two and unwind, and I think that's important.
Yes, they probably should. Burnout is rife even with more than one admin/moderator ioo. So as long as they can all be trusted there should probably be a lot more, especially paid, admins and mods, donations willing.
I'm not sure about paid, but I mean, if there's will for it by the userbase I'd chip in. I think there's a decent amount of people who would be good at the role and want to volunteer.