I'm definitely interested in hear other people's opinions. Posting something in the Agora seems like a good idea. If nobody in this thread does it then maybe I'll put something up myself in a few days.
For now, @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works's suggestion is the way to go: PM one of us admins on a case-by-case basis and we'll help out.
In the long term, maybe we should set some criteria for identifying dead or unmodertaed communities and locking them? Our instance has hundreds communities, many of which are hardly used and likely abandoned by their creators. I made an effort some months ago to find active mods for the busiest communities, and remove communities with no assigned moderator. I'm not sure what to do with the rest of them, if anything. They aren't causing immediate problems. And confirming the activity status of every mod is one of those dull chores that has lingered at the bottom of my to-do list.
These comments remind me of the Occupy Wall Street protests back in 2011. That movement also didn't lead to immediate law or policy changes at the national level, but it seems to have left a more subtle mark that is still with us. Income inequality has remained a hot topic, states have raised minimum wages, and UBI proposals are being discussed more seriously (at least in certain circles).
Some of the instance admins have been poking at this lagging federation issue for a few weeks now, trying to figure it out.
The Reddthat admin noticed that Lemmy's federation process can't seem to meet demand in some cases. Reddthat has had trouble staying current with lemmy.world due to the network latency between Europe and Australia: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/9807807. I understand that lemmy.nz has seen this, too.
Another thing that has been noticed is spamming of actions from kbin instances. It looks like some process gets stuck in a loop on the kbin side. https://lemmy.world/comment/8961882
I'm sure there are other contributing problems that still aren't well understood. This software is a work in progress, after all.
It feels like you're asking to go back to the late '90s. I clearly remember juggling plugins for Netscape Navigator and assigning MIME types to various apps. It was a mess. Modern integrated browsers are so much more predictable and user-friendly than the patchwork approach.
Life insurance companies could conceivably do this already. They sometimes ask for blood tests (among other exams) as a precondition of granting overage.
I'm definitely interested in hear other people's opinions. Posting something in the Agora seems like a good idea. If nobody in this thread does it then maybe I'll put something up myself in a few days.
For now, @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works's suggestion is the way to go: PM one of us admins on a case-by-case basis and we'll help out.
In the long term, maybe we should set some criteria for identifying dead or unmodertaed communities and locking them? Our instance has hundreds communities, many of which are hardly used and likely abandoned by their creators. I made an effort some months ago to find active mods for the busiest communities, and remove communities with no assigned moderator. I'm not sure what to do with the rest of them, if anything. They aren't causing immediate problems. And confirming the activity status of every mod is one of those dull chores that has lingered at the bottom of my to-do list.