Maybe part of what makes TikTok so powerful, how it categorizes videos in an addicting way, is that it turns the lurkers into contributors/voters by using watch time as a proxy for voting.

Meta discussion - the existence of this post makes the wonder what moderation tools on lemmy are like? And if there's systems in place to deal with unwanted content.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/04-moderation.html

1. Users report posts & comments
2. Communities have mods
3. Instances have admins
4. Instances that disagree on how moderation should be done can block the other

Edit: Changed "unmoderated communities" to "unwanted content" to clarify my intent to discuss moderation in general

I think threads like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28440742 help explain the complexity of performance. There's considerations from the development process, existing technology, simplicity, and more.

I agree, communities take time to grow

Thank you for bringing up Eternal September. I feel like it's one particularly relevant to the situation right now. I'm new here and I'm just jumping in and seeing what happens, but I'm aware that I should probably read more than I write.

Oops, didn't mean to imply that the community wasn't moderated or that this post in particular was worthy of a ban. The post was slightly negative so it made me think about moderation. Thanks for your work!