I see lots of references to it and its demise. Just curious what the story is.
Hobbies come and go. Shiny exciting thing stopped being shiny and exciting and now it’s just a thing you’re paying the bills for until you admit you’ve moved on.
Honestly I can relate.
Sorry I got hungry and I ate the servers
It tasted good tho
Moderation is the most difficult aspect of running social media platforms.
A well-constructed site also has a huge amount of work put in to its design and functionality. Its a job that requires a lot of discretion, compromise, and adapting to the best interests of the users… all things which aren’t necessarily obvious. So really, there’s at least three absolutely vital job areas:
- Backend and maintenance
- Ongoing site design
- Moderation and PR
It’s so, so easy to underestimate how much and varied the work is going to be when you’re high on enthusiasm.
None of that makes you look at mutilated children, though.
That depends on the layout of duties for any particular site / instance.
When Sunaurus spoke of “vile content,” I got the sense that yes, he had to deal with too much of that horrible shit, plus much more.
never heard of it
Thought I’d add my bit. Was on lemm.ee from start to close, was a great instance as the admin was vocal, held public votes on large scale changes and accessible when things went wrong.
I hosted a Wales community on there until it’s demise before switching over to feddit.uk as that was more adjacent to my career anyway.
RIP lemm.ee you will be missed.
