Barbarian

Lemme try my best in order:

1. The admins. The people who run the server the community is hosted on.
2. Ideally, yes. But each instance gets to decide who they ban. If there's an AngryNazi.fuckyou instance, each other instance can decide they don't want to talk to them or see their communities.
3. Again, each instance decides who they federate with. Don't want your instance to get banned on another instance? Control your users.
4. I guess? If your a user of AngryNazi.fuckyou and that instance gets banned in a lot of instances, you will need to make a new account in a less tainted instance.
5. Unlimited (depending on hardware power Vs users, of course)

That bar is going to be way more vertical tomorrow. The community finder is reporting 2 communities breaking 7k+ users.

I upvoted and chuckled, but please use Imgur or similar links while the entire ecosystem is being hit by the Reddit hug of death :)

If you're the first person to subscribe to a community from your server, what you need to do is go to the community search, switch from "Communities" to "All", then paste in the full URL (https://lemmy.ml/c/worldbuilding)

I know it's not great, but keep in mind that Lemmy just increased their userbase by 12-fold overnight and it's a 2-man dev team. This isn't some glossy corporate product, and there will be teething issues.

Yup. The entire ecosystem is experiencing the Reddit hug of death. Server maintainers are trying to upgrade their hardware as fast as possible and the devs are trying to optimize the code as fast as humanly possible.

I joined the same day as the APIocalypse happened, and this is a wild ride to watch.

You can disable the creation of new communities. If I understand what you want to do correctly (host users but not content), just make an instance, disable community creation, and put a stickied post linking the community finder and explaining that you should add using the full URL of the community

Any user could just put in the full URL of your community to subscribe like I did, but this is a tumultuous time. Just trying to make things as easy as possible for the torrent of new users coming in :)

Completely agree. I'll be ecstatic if Lemmy hits the point where it's self-sustaining. It doesn't need to attract millions, but it needs enough active engaged users to post and comment so that there's enough interesting shit here

Subscribed to pull your community into lemmy.ml, should show up if anyone searches for 3D printing now

Arrr me matey! I can't walk the plank, me wings'll get in the way!

I think a lot more play the Steam one, as it looks better

They are credited with taking down wolfballs

I found it in your link, thanks. Jesus. I think lemmygrad deserves a medal for that if this post is representative of that community.