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I don't really know which community to post this in, I think this is the most relevant one?

I've recently spent a bit more time on lemmy.world and I have to say they don't seem super keen on removing trolls and transphobes, same for instances like lemmings.world.

The moderators seem to be perfectly aware of transphobic replies, vague threats, misinformation, and obvious trolling, yet they hardly remove any of the offending replies, and rarely if ever ban anyone. Certainly not often enough to make the network less toxic.

This post was mostly to vent, but I would also like to ask: when you report someone, who receives the report? Mods on my instance? The mods of the specific community I'm reporting from?

Sorry if this is the wrong place.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We have several active members who are planning to vote Biden, and we've had at least two posts about it. I've often encouraged users to make a post about why they're voting for Biden, but they've almost always declined, which tells me they may have just intended to argue in the comments. As long as these posts don't defend the current system and are sensitive to the feelings of people who have lost loved ones to Biden's policies and actions, this has always been allowed and even welcomed.

It's a community for leftists though, so it should come from a leftist perspective. Managing a community like this is hard, because it by definition will exclude groups hostile to basic leftist theory, such as fascists, conservatives, and liberals. That's really the intent of the community -- I saw a need for a space where we're not constantly put on the defensive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I blocked the community mostly because I didn't like the overly aggressive responses and the lack of any discussion around alternatives etc. but if things have changed since I blocked (which was shortly after it's inception) then that's good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I feel like I'm mostly responsible for that, and I'm making an effort not to be so rude and aggressive.