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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/27858506

This post serves as notice that Lemmy.one will be shutting down in 90 days.

Unfortunately, the moderation features in Lemmy never progressed to the point required to continue maintaining this service, and Lemmy simply does not have the userbase to justify the cost of this service. Myself and the moderation team apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.

This is sad news. Hopefully the comms can migrate to other smaller instances.

Edit: just saw this

as this is a fairly active community we just wanted to let you know that this community is no longer federating with Lemmy.World due to defederation from lemmy.one for lack of moderation.

Our announcement can be found here: https://lemmy.world/post/28173093

We recommend migrating to a community on an instance that is maintained better.

I guess it's been an issue. I think the lemmy.one meant they needed better administration features

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Thanks for the cross post.

Citations needed on mod tool complaints. I mod one of the largest communities on Lemmy. In 2 years I've had around a couple dozen times that required actual mod stuff. The tools are perfectly adequate for the volume of users in my opinion.

We all took it a little hard when some regular users left. I get that. There will always be people coming and going for various reasons.

There is also always an issue with narcissists that tend to get involved with moderating for the wrong reasons.

All humans are lazy at times. And all of us have a right to pick up an leave if we choose. Blaming the tools as a scapegoat for one's laziness, or inadequacy, or to mask one's financial limitations, seems to me like a narcissistic way to toss in the towel and check out, like an attempt to drag others down too.

I wish those that want to leave all the best, and I'll still be here hanging around if you ever want to come back, friend. Regardless , thanks for what you contributed to this place in the time we spent as digital neighbors.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Everyone thinks the moderation/admin features need to be improved. I'm curious which improvements people are really needing. Whenever I see big complaints about it (beehaw, lemmy.one) I never see any specifics. Link the filed Github issues for them otherwise the feature requests don't really exist, and I'd like to give them thumbs up reactions so they get prioritized more.

Once I saw Beehaw give an actual specific complaint, and it was fixed in a hotfix (v0.18.5) within a couple weeks. Of course Beehaw never updated to that version anyways.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A built in auto mod is the largest thing. A way to say that this common pattern is spam and to block it system wide, right now we just don't have that. A nice to have stretch goal would be to use some model to fight actual gore or csam material, which just doesn't exist. A moderation dashboard would be great to see users with their comment history, vote trends, high level to see if a person just had an off comment that might be taken the wrong way, or if there is a trend of trolling behavior

These have been opened on the GitHub and either sit open forever or are just closed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

does Reddit have any of these tools built-in? they sound cool, but they can also be built externally (I believe an automod exists?), and I would say correctly take a back seat to bug fixes

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why compare us to reddit? We feel like Reddit but from a hosting and admin perspective it's a whole different ballgame. Mods of reddit at worst run the risk of their communities being taken down for a bit if they let content slip through. Here on Lemmy us admins are legally liable for content that is posted. We don't have a large limited liability corporation that will take the hit for us. We need these tools, or we are the ones that will have boots through doors.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyAutomod

I think it's better as separate software. It means it can be developed more efficiently. And this seems to have a lot of features, so it seems it is efficient to develop this way.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Unrelated, but deus ex randomized sounds like a great idea. It's been so long I feel like I would have to replay the base game first.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

we have a game mode called "Zero Rando" (no randomization) that's basically vanilla with QoL improvements and bug fixes

the Randomizer had so many compatibility fixes, QoL improvements, and bug fixes over the original game, this ended up being really useful for new first time players

since you've played before we also have "Zero Rando Plus" which is the same thing, but also includes the balance changes we've made for Randomizer

and we also have "Rando Lite" and "Rando Medium" to get started with the randomization stuff before going up to Normal Randomizer or Full Randomizer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLZIQTa_kwZhBksj7UzcahPiRaHk87fWch&v=ksoj1QMoGIc

https://mods4ever.com/ | [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How does this compare to other community patches in your opinion?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

our "Zero Rando" makes way less changes to the gameplay than GMDX or Revision, which are often recommended to first time players but they're actually totally different games from the original

our "Zero Rando Plus" would be more similar in the amount of changes to them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How about Deus Ex: Transcended?

I think that was the patch I ended up using my first playthrough (I'm away from my computer at the moment or else I'd check), but I might want to use something else my second time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Transcended seems good. I haven't played it, but it sounds like it still has changes from Revision left over in it (it was forked from Revision). Like cameras seeing bodies, pawns reacting to unconscious bodies, and dogs having the jump attack. But idk if those can be turned off. If they can be turned off then it's pretty similar to our "Zero Rando".

But we have more QoL features available that you can enable which aren't included by default in "Zero Rando". A big one being Password Autofill which isn't enabled by default in "Zero Rando" but it's huge for Steam Deck players.

We also allow selectively enabling balance changes. Like auto augs, or general aug balance changes, there's an option for skill changes, map changes. Here's some of the settings menus:

Also we're open source

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Unrelated, but Moby Dick was named after a real white whale named Mocha Dick, which was nicknamed after first being encountered near Mocha Island.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

o7

Evolution is dumb in that it requires death.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It doesn't require it, but it doesn't not require it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's kind of sad but also isn't surprising. They didn't exactly put in a huge amount of effort to maintain it, nor did they put in much effort to grow it or make it appealing as a server for people to join.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That explains why despite it being around for a while I seem to have no opinion of it.

Edit: always sad to see an instance go however

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not surprised. Moderation tools have needed to be the top priority for a long time, and most of lemmy’s users don’t know how janky it is behind the scenes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

most ~~of lemmy’s~~ users don’t know how janky it is behind the scenes

That’s technology in general

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Sounds like admin tools should be first.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Any significant communities impacted? Scrolling through my subscriptions list and I don't have any in my list.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Oh that is kinda sad.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm a bit bummed as lemmy.one was my introduction to the ecosystem. :(

OTOH, when they were having server problems, I set up a kbin account, but left it when it became clear I could only use the kbin app to access it. Looks like that's shut down now too!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm a fellow mbin convert myself. When the great exodus happened, I set up a Lemmy instance, but I took a 4 month break from it for reasons I don't recall. When I tried to spin that instance back up it wouldn't pull in new posts and didn't support oidc, but I saw that mbin did, so I switched to that and was pretty happy with its look and feel.

Writing this message on the interstellar app just now. My only minor gripe is that there's no way to mark something as read with a single tap that I've found. (Got to long press and mark as read, but I'll accept that I may have missed something)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

mbin is going great. Interstellar is a solid app.

Note that I may be biased.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll add to the bias. I created both a kbin account and a Lemmy.one account when the migration happened. Preferred kbin's look and feel, then changed over to mbin when Ernest started having issues. Haven't looked back, mbin is great.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

+1 for the kbin >>mbin pipeline. I like that it still has pwa support since I really don't need a phone app for a text based forum

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

since I really don't need a phone app for a text based forum

We are very different people and I respect that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Lol, I think we might be closer than you think. Lemmy and reddit are both basically unusable in web form on mobile, but Ernest took the time to make the layout of kbin in such a way that it compresses down to a PWA/Mobile layout without becoming a complete clusterfuck, something the mbin maintainers have maintained support for and I think is one of the key distinguishing features of the platform. The way it works feels very similar to the old RIF layout, and as such was everything I wanted from a reddit replacement from day one :)

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

kbin development has halted due to personal issues of the sole dev.

It has since been forked as mbin and seems to be doing well. I too am waiting for stronger app support to truly compare.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm excited for both Piefed and MBin. Both projects are progressing rapidly and have communities that seem to have their heads and hearts in the the right places

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm also watching piefed's development. Flairs are good addition.

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