The split is so interesting! One instance has open registration (like us), the other had a plan for a tightly moderated community. They just don’t have the tools to handle all the trolls coming from the open registration instance.

It’s not unlike the reddit mods saying they can’t moderate with the tools reddit provides, and need to use third party tools that rely on the API. Though the issue with Lemmy is not the API but that it’s so early that third party moderation tools don’t really exist.