I've received more reports in the last 48 hours than in the past 7 years!

[dansup@mastodon.social]

I've received more reports in the last 48 hours than in the past 7 years!

While I'm managing to do this on my own atm, I need to assemble a mod team, and build a mod dashboard/role so I can lessen the burden, and focus on coding.

Doing everything yourself works great until you go viral, and suddenly are fighting fires.

Wouldn't change a thing though, I'm sliving

[thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange]

Pixelfed's rapid growth is very exciting. Still, until you have a mod team -- and the underlying software supports mod dashboards and roles -- please consider switching to invite-only registration (and encourage or even require other instances listed on pixelfed.org to do the same).

The opportunity isn't going to go away: Meta and Instagram aren't going to get any less evil, so people who are interested now will still be interested one you've got the team and softrware in place. In fact many other social networks have successfully used invite-only phases to build pent-up demand.

But a moderation disaster (which is increasingly likely as things grow without the proper tools and teams in place) could permanently damage Pixelfed's reputation in a way that's very hard to recover from. And, until there's good moderation support in the software, you're putting both the people who sign up and the people who are hosting instances at risk.

@dansup