You might want to seek professional help in that case.

I meant more like trust in communities and admins. If you can trust that the admins and moderators will do their task well, you shouldn’t have to worry about keeping track of these users yourself.

Karma in the style of reddit is not and has never been a great proxy for whether a user is “good” or “bad”. It mostly just says something about how active a user is and for how long they have been active, and how much they agree with the hivemind. Agreeing with the hivemind is not necessarily the criteria you want, as that just leads to more echo chamber situations.

I don’t know, I’ve never done meditation. I don’t think you have to overdo or overthink this. It’s more about letting your brain have some moments of rest from stimulation. We’re currently stimulated all the time. It’s not healthy.

Sorry, Shaun who? 😅

Tip for anyone dealing with this: it’s not just a sleep hygiene thing. You’re thinking about all those things because you didn’t give yourself space to think about any of it during the day. Try to just sit without looking at your phone all the time. Try to have silence when you’d normally listen to music or a podcast.

Basically, try being bored again. You’ll find your mind will fill in with these thoughts and you’ll have an easier time processing them when you don’t have the pressure of needing to sleep.

Trust built up over a long time through well moderated communities is my bet.

Not sure I like this though. That kinda stuff can just as easily be used to enforce echo chambers and censorship.

This depends on the settings of the other instance. Some instances copy images, others don’t.

actually starting a new instance on the same domain name would be… very weird, potentially extremely problematic. The system would not be able to tell apart users from the old site and the new site.

On the other hand, as far as I can tell, they only called for new admins/mods 4 months ago and not since then. I agree that if you care about something, you should support it and not wait until they cry for help, but there is also a matter of being proactive and transparent about how volunteer recruitment is going (well or badly).

I don’t believe admins should voice their opinion in this way

Why not? Not every instance has to be neutral on all points.

That is a terrible and wildly inaccurate analogy. Running an instance is not comparable to a nature reserve

Don’t feel bad, it’s not like it’s your fault. Just keep it in mind for the next instance you join, if they seem to be struggling or call for help.

I think they just mean that it’s heavily moderated and principled. Which is fine and kind of the point.

A lot of those people would be correct :)

I think you’re retroactively reinterpreting your vague phrasing, but whatever dude. I don’t think that particular post has anything to do with it.

That’s four months ago. Unfortunate that they didn’t call for more urgent help after that. But I suppose it’s too late now.

Because a couple weeks ago, the lemm.ee crew made a post asking for donations

They didn’t, that was a post asking to donate to lemmy, the software.

You cannot possibly convice me that didn’t somehow influence this decision to shutdown the instance.

I can because it’s completely irrelevant, and what stopped this instance seems to have nothing to do with the development, but rather to do with the amount of volunteers and their work load.

No, that post is a request from the lemm.ee admins to donate to Lemmy, the software. Not to donate to lemm.ee. You’re talking about the same post.

It’s possible that lemm.ee grew too fast for its own good. Also possible that it lacked an “identity” as it was very general purpose. Certain instances attract users that behave better. Perhaps lemm.ee did not (no shade on anyone, just speculating).