I’m a reddit refugee considering spinning up a lemmy instance. I’ve always been a lurker and I want to be more active in this new community. My biggest deterrent in starting an instance and adding some communities (I know I don’t have to have communities on an instance, but I want to!) is moderating users and posts. How much time does it take? How often do trolls need to be dealt with? What are the other things I’m not thinking about? Am I overthinking this?
I actually believe you should be able to breed if you’d like, people should be free to do that… I just think the licensing requirements should be very very strict.
For venomous snakes, for example, you have to spend 1,000 hours being mentored in order to work with them… these are usually unpaid hours where you have to beg to work with someone, and it’ll take around 5 years, if you also have a job. If something like that existed for dog breeding, that would weed out all the horrible people, without punishing those who really have a passion (although it is quite the hoop!).
I understand wanting to line breed for a trait, we’ve bred dogs for generations to enhance traits, but man, what most breeders do is just fucked up these days, but I don’t want to punish genuine people with a passion who do the right thing, y’know?