Hello world!
We would like to start by saying thank you β€, no really π THANK YOU to ALL the moderators out there!
Without you folks, we would have no one to help keep our community safe and help build the communities both here on Lemmy.World and on other fine instances. To this end, we want to make sure your voices are heard π£ loud and clearπ£.
So, in the spirit of transparency, we would like everyone to know that we are looking to help out the folks working on Sublinks. Over the last several months we have grown to be more than just Lemmy.World. We've added platforms such as Pixelfed and Sharkey to help offer our users more diverse options for expressing themselves online. We still are very committed to Mastodon as well.
We DO NOT plan on moving away from Lemmy as a software platform at this time. Any changes in our core services would need to be discussed extensively internally AND externally with our community members. We firmly believe in the growth of the Fediverse and without the users, there would only be software, and that's no fun!
Sooo...
The Sublinks team has written up a little survey, which we feel is both thorough and inclusive. It covers a wide range of topics, such as user privacy, and community engagement, along with trying to gauge things that are difficult when moderating.
Also please be aware the information collected by this survey is completely anonymous. As many of us in the social sciences background know, if you want the REAL feelings of individuals, they need to feel safe to express themselves.
πModeration Survey HEREπ
Please feel free to comment in this thread, we will do our best to respond to any genuine questions.
We look forward to hearing from each and every one of you!
=Sincerely,
Fedihosting Foundation
PS ... also if this sounds like a corporate press release to you folks, we still punk π€ππ€
I think you have lost few braincells by writing those sentences.
From our perspective it is more anonymous than having it self hosted. As we could corelate users IPs of lemmy and visitors of the form.
We dont want to get ddosed by some script kiddies too. Because they just dont like LW or so.
And yes, the mod tools are really lacking in many places.
Your reply style here really makes me question how "non-toxic" the development environment will really be.
I am just return the favor. If you give a non toxic/troll comment i would have responded otherwise.
I am sorry if you are feeling attacked.
I'm not the person you replied to.
But your comments are frequently not constructive. At all. That concerns me.
The person i replied to wasnt constructive too? So what is your point?
If it is a point that "microsoft bad!!!!!!!", then yeah thats a valid point. But WHAT is an alternative to that? That is secure, ddos protected and doesnt cost us more than 0$. Additionally who will set it up for one survey? And again, self hosted != more privacy. We see your ip there and on lemmy, so we could theoretically correlate your ip and boom we have your lemmy account, on microsoft forms we dont that.
If you are really concerned that microsoft is doing shady stuff with your correlated answer, then dont use it as simple as that and dont blame someone that is doing this in their free time and for no money.
Cryptpad has forms. There's also Framaforms though I can't say how well it works or whether it would suit your needs.
Ok i will give those alternatives to the sublinks team.
If you need other alternatives in the future Awesome Privacy repo has a pretty good list on various categories.