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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello world!

We would like to start by saying thank you ❤, no really 🙏 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 📣 loud and clear📣.

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.

👉Moderation Survey HERE👈

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 🤘😜🤘

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There are definitely some federated servers that need to be removed from network

Lemmy.ml in particular is being used to push specific voices and banning anyone else

Banned apparently from asklemmy on there because one asshole interpreted me supporting Israel. When my comment exclusively was pointing out that the past the use made was low effort trolling meme in a thread complaining about trolling

So thank you [email protected] for directly evidencing that you, and your node are hateful little agenda pushing shits.

I want to love lemmy

But the federated model will fail if nodes like the .ml continue to online and assholes like this mod have zero accountability

I honestly don’t feel like because I’d these problems this site is any better than Reddit.

We also need the power to block a node completely from our feeds. Also to block and ban entire nodes from our own communities as i don’t want any lemmy.ml users in my sub

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Whelp, I've spent enough time here to make a decision. As of right now, I love it here, and I don't see that changing. I've decided to go premium, in an effort to support things. I will withdraw that so fast though if I see any reason to do so.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I literally just got permanently banned from reddit because I criticized some mods who mass reported it as "harassment". I'm looking for reddit alternatives and found this. Please tell me the mods here are respectful civil and levelheaded?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Meh. It depends. I was recently banned from a community for what I thought was a completely innocuous comment. Extrajudicial, too, because the ban never appeared in the modlog. Mods didn't respond to my query. So, yeah, pretty much reddit antics.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If it helps at all, I have had a much better time on here than I ever did on Reddit. It isn't perfect, but I at least feel like I am not going to be punished for existing, even if people disagree with me. All mod logs are public, so there is at least some transparency there. So far, I like lemmy.world and dbzer0.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That actually does help a lot. I just walked out after 11 years, man. It's pretty telling that I'm barely upset about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Welcome!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It depends on what instance you joined and what instances you post to.

We try and be as fair as possible here at Lemmy.World / FHF.

Https://legal.lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What does that mean? What's an "instance" in lemmy terms?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

An instance is a server that provides both a place to login and communities to browse.

You can have a account on Lemmy.World, but browse and comment on communities on servers such as lemm.ee. Likewise folks that have accounts registered on lemm.ee can post on communities on lemmy.world.

The servers talk to each other via the ActivityPub protocol. I've seen folks use the email analogy, but I think it confuses more folks referring to it like that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Very interesting. I appreciate the info, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Think of it like email, which is also federated. You've chosen, say, Yahoo, but your email still works with Gmail, Apple, Hotmail, AOL, and whatever else people use these days.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Just to clarify for more techy folks, it can also be a group of servers as well, it's all based off a single domain name for inbound requests. Outbound, they just need to announce the right return domain.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I run a community of over 11K almost by myself on reddit and I can't say I struggle to moderate it. Here on Lemmy I post to one I set up, but I'm the only one doing it. That said, I saw virtually no moderation tools, so it would definitely help to have something. However, I don't want my posts to get lost or be spread across two or more communities, as opposed to having everything searchable in one place. What would be the technical obstacle in copying the posts and preserving the dates? If size is an issue, they could be capped to a specific size, only with the metadata transferred in those cases.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're a mod over there eh?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, my reddit activity is pretty much limited to that now. I don't want to abandon the community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

What community?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Everything will be migrated, WHEN and IF we every swap over.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is very sad to see... Instead of improving things from within, you are trying to split the community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

The survey form eats more RAM the longer it's open until it becomes unusable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

thanks to instance-wide mod efforts. take the drudgery out of chasing most spammy types. out here getting fat.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

The mod team here works very hard to filter spam out, it's actually really bad if you don't have automation and a large team.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

it would be nice to have the mod tools be easier to use and access

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Comments like this are why that survey was created in the first place. Needing info on how to do things better.

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