Hey there! For complicated reasons, some of which I will explain later, I'm in the middle of dong a pretty gigantic revamp to the Motte codebase. Right now, this means "fix a bunch of small bugs". Later, other things will be happening.
The immediate goal of this is not to massively transform the site or do a Digg v4/New Reddit thing. Frankly, if the site remained exactly the same (but with fewer bugs) I would be happy.
The long-term goal isn't going to be quite that static, though. The long-term goal is to set things up to allow more subcommunities, similar to how subreddits work. This will be a larger set of changes. These changes will not obsolete The Motte itself; I am absolutely aiming for a site that can comfortably keep holding The Motte. I've talked about this before if you want to go read about it - this is still the same plan, for what it's worth, it's just now being (slowly) executed.
I will be posting more, and asking questions about next steps, when actual site behavioral changes are in the queue. This just isn't that! This is infrastructure work.
tl;dr: The site backend may be a little wonky for a bit, sorry about that, please report any bugs.
(and mods, feel free to unsticky this in a few days if I forget)
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Notes -
IMO brigading was an overstated problem. Local moderators could handle it, and it was mainly used as justification to ban subreddits on very shaky grounds. Woke sub says something unpopular, gets downvotes and hostile comments, blames whichever non-woke sub was most active at the time, admins ban it. This was before they just explicitly banned anything not left-of-center.
Moreover, comment-brigading is relatively harmless. Brigaded comments get downvoted and hidden. We don't have to accept other sites' votes, only their comments - and any node that hosts a bunch of spammers can be defederated.
I'll also say that you shouldn't worry about "radical lemmy instances". These are hugboxes for redditors who want to consider themselves special even as the main site is politically indistinguishable from theirs. They'll blacklist us immediately, and we'll never hear from them.
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