I don’t want to be incendiary, but aren’t they just getting new mods? Are the new people going to show up and wreck the place for fun?

I’m not that well read on this subject, but you can do this in your house or with a VPS? I always thought there was some conflict with residential internet and selfhosting?

Yes but I only see 2 problems so far. The siloing of instances and searchability. I can’t search with lemmy yet since there are so many instances with no standard like with site:reddit.com. Way less issues than dealing with reddit so it’s a big win for me!

Why continue to mod it then? Let the place wreck itself with whatever nefarious modder shows up to do the dirty work.