It's going to be cray-cray over then next few days. Manage your spoons well.
The wave of sign-ups will come and go, but burn-out or some bad moderation decisions will affect a community for a long, long time.
It's better to slowly but reliably build a small, resilient, safe space than to try to go hockey-stick on sign-ups only to have people get burnt, abandon their accounts, and tell their friends about it.
We're playing the long game.
Keep calm and be excellent to each other.
@rysiek just to notify to avoid federating lemmy.ml and lemmygrad instances for both are owned by tankies and genocide deniers (yes, really)