We’re a relatively small community, so it wouldn’t take much for us to be overwhelmed.

You are correct, we are small. But I do have a contingency for brigading. I've not had to put it to the test, yet - but I think we can handle a brigade descending on us. For a start, I have a "Nuke Post" button that will kill a post outright. That will likely suffice in most cases.

Worst case: I can go thermonuclear and flip federation. Instead of a list of blocked "naughty" instances, I can move us to a list of "nice" instances and block everyone else aside from the site for a time. I should review that list, I haven't updated it since about March.

The Admin tools are a bit rudimentary. Like the Internet in the 70's and 80's, Lemmy was set up on the assumption that people are cool and not out to ruin everyone's day. But there are some tools there to provide us with some shelter from a storm of bad faith actors if we need them. I'm hoping they'll continue to mature as Lemmy itself does. And by the time we need stuff like this, there are better options than effectively going dark to much of the Fediverse in case of emergency.

Everythings cool over a White Russian, or two.