Autism.Place

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A community for sharing news related to and seeking support with autism.place.

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Announcement regarding the instance... (lemmy.autism.place)

submitted 20 hours ago by kapx132@lemmy.autism.place to c/autismplace@lemmy.autism.place

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It is with great sadness that i write this. however The Admin team has parted ways. I have closed registrations, and disabled the option to create new communities. The server will be ran until the payments dry up (about ~1-2 months). We have tried to build a community for autistic people online. It ended up not working for which we apologize. Please do not go after the other team members. Some disappeared, some went their ways, but whatever the reason i wish them the best. If you have any questions, leave them here and i will try to answer them.

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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 17 points 18 hours ago

Moderating federated sites like these is a lot more work than people expect. Some of us have experience from the old internet, like forums, or even chatrooms, and these spaces are much more difficult than even large examples of those were.

If anyone on your Mastodon-based site follows some bad actors elsewhere, you get a flood of questionable-at-best material streaming in that you have to deal with. You have to moderate both your local community, and the rest of the internet, and that's... Ugh. And then, when you actually do it, you get your users complaining about "censorship" or "petty admin drama", when you just don't want to host and platform bullshit that's against your rules (or worse).

It's exhausting. I'm not surprised most people in the position collapse and disappear.