Cross posting this here for visibility as it’s easy to not see the edit. They are adding thoughts and resources to the post as they evolve so maybe keep an eye out for future edits.

I think the questions they have are very reasonable & they have welcomed cis people to discuss on the post (but not elsewhere on the subreddit)

I’m new to Lemmy and doing what I can. Long time member of the subreddit. Maybe some of you all are better than me at discussing these topics with them?

Thank you all for your help so far 🫶

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    I did ;_; I completely forgot how Reddit works in this regard. I hope that HiddenStill can still see it as a mod.

    In case they don’t, I’ll copypaste the content here:

    I don’t claim to have “expert knowledge” on Lemmy, but I was discussing the topic there with one of the users of this sub (hi bayesianbandit!), and I’ve been in Lemmy for long enough (2021) to know a few things about it.

    Can Lemmy can scale to the size required if trans content was banned on reddit.

    Lemmy as a network can scale indefinitely. Even if a specific instance is reaching its limit, people can create new instances to split the load.

    So the problem is mostly if the “transgender surgeries instance” would be able to handle the load, and how much it would cost. Accordingly to this link, “the 10 biggest Lemmy servers still only have hosting costs of $50-$300/mo”.

    I couldn’t find much information on Lemmy’s moderation tools. Currently this sub attracts a lot of hate and chasers, which moderation easily takes care of. In the past the have been excessive amounts, but reddit has cracked down on it, and provides tools to limit it (not very good ones). Lemmy would be unusable without this.

    The official mod tools are awful and only suited for small communities. However larger instances developed a few third party mod tools to alleviate the burden, including an AutoMod of sorts.

    Lemmy also allows something called “defederation”, where users from one instance cannot interact with users from another instance. The nearest of that in Reddit would be if you were able to prevent all users who posted in a subreddit to post in yours. That helps wonders to keep haters at bay.

    Lemmy works by sharing data across multiple instances (computers) and it appears there seem to be privacy concerns about the amount of data on users that is shared. / What is to stop the owners of the instance shutting it down, or the data being lost for any other reason? Although not a corporate it makes no difference. There would be a massive loss of knowledge and history.

    The main concern is that data shared with one instance pops up in other instances, due to the federation. That’s both a liability and a feature - because if the original instance goes down, the data is still preserved in the other instances.