starting in late March 2026, there will be a new limit of 5 high-traffic communities per moderator. Only communities with greater than 100k weekly visitors count toward this limit, and there are no limits on communities under that amount.
For those who are impacted (less than 0.1% of active mods), we’re rolling out in several phases over 6 months to ensure mods have sufficient time to prepare. We notified all impacted moderators last month, and you can also check your status anytime here.
More details in the thread.
We could also consider policies around this on an instance level. I don’t think it’s that big of a problem yet, and “X communities with >Y users” might not be the best metric for us, but it’s worth discussing
As part of the community team for LW, I’ve worked towards this goal as long as I’ve been here. I do not have the authority to make it policy.
But considering, A. There aren’t that many big communities, and B. Users seem to hate any kind of moderation anyway, it doesn’t seem like a big stress point at the moment.
The users have demanded that US news should be allowed in World News because anything that happens in the US affects the world. And, uh, I’ve tested this and it seems to be consensus. I hate it, but any mods that tried to enforce something sane have left, and the users have gotten their way.
I guess everyone just browses all anyway, for now. So they don’t want things removed that have comments regardless of where it’s posted.
Learning that the Lemmy.world team will capitulate to whatever it’s loudest users want explains a LOT.
Yea I’ve seen this as well. I think part of the problem is a lack of an automod, since rule breaking content sticks around for hours accumulating comments before a mod sees it. Users are good about reporting spam, since it’s very obvious, but not everyone is familiar enough with community rules to report based on those.
Who does?