Let me preface this with a few remarks. I love this instance. I'm generally in favour of topic-specific instances, and I would like to extend my gratitude and appreciation to @[email protected] for creating and maintaining diagonlemmy.social.

However, there are a couple of drawbacks to diagonlemmy, and I think it is worth considering whether this community might be better served elsewhere.

This instance has only one admin, and they are not in a position where they can regularly monitor this instance, nor have they recruited any additional admins or even moderators. As an example, it took ~4 months for my local account to be manually approved.

This has not been a major problem so far, but it is risky. As this community grows, we could see a higher frequency of situations where prompt admin/mod action is necessary. We also run the risk of the instance going offline indefinitely with no way to know when (or even if) it might be fixed