@LMAO is flooding the site with random communities because they’re salty about being banned for claiming too many community names. They claim they’re trying to “fuck your entire site up” but I imagine it’s a relatively quick fix to delete all the communities they’re creating, LMAO.

  • Masta_Chief@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    1 year ago

    As someone who’s new to lemmy, could someone explain who is in charge of policing and moderating community names like this? With reddit it’s obv Admins but who has that level of power here?

    • CupDock@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      30·
      1 year ago

      The instance owner/admins are in charge of that. They’re kind of equivalent to the Reddit admins, except if you don’t like the instance admins you can go to a different Lemmy instance but you can’t move to a new Reddit instance. Also, community names are unique to each instance, so !support@lemmy.world and !support@lemm.ee share the same name but are two separate communities in two separate instances.

        • eramseth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          No. He’s creating communities (formerly subreddits) within the lemmy.world community. Ruud should still have authority over them.

        • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nzEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Anyone can be the god of their own instance. Doesn’t mean other instances need to federate and listen to whatever it spits out. I imagine some metric of quality will come for instance admins to decide who to federate with. Hopefully with a mechanism to allow small new instances to join and thrive so it doesn’t devolve into only the big servers trusting each other