Edit 2025-01-13: LW has indicated they will be clarifying these rules soon. In the mean time, the community will remain locked until those are updated and deemed acceptable.
So the LW Team put out an announcement on new, site-wide moderation policy (see post link). I’ve defended, to many a downvote, pretty much every major decision they’ve made, but I absolutely cannot defend this one. In short, mods are expected to counter pretty much every batshit claim rather than mod it as misinformation, trolling, attack on groups, etc.
My rebuttal (using my main account) to the announcement: https://dubvee.org/comment/3541322
We’re going to allow some “flat earth” comments. We’re going to force some moderators to accept some “flat earth” comments. The point of this is that you should be able to counter those comments with words, and not need moderation/admin tools to do so.
(emphases mine)
Me: What if, to use the recent example from Meta, someone comes into a LGBT+ community and says they think being gay is a mental illness and /or link some quack study? Is that an attack on a group or is it “respectful dissent”?
LW: A lot of attacks like that are common and worth refuting once in awhile anyway. It can be valuable to show the response on occasion
I understand what they’re trying to address here (highly encourage you to read the linked post), but the way they’re going about it is heavy handed and reeks of “both sides”-ing every community, removing agency from the community moderators who work like hell to keep these spaces safe and civil, and opening the floodgates for misinformation and “civil” hate speech. How this new policy fits with their Terms of Service is completely lost to me.
I’ll leave the speculation as to whether Musk dropped LW a big check as an exercise to the reader.
For now, this community is going dark in protest and I encourage other communities who may disagree with this new policy to join. Again, I understand the problem that is trying to be addressed, but this new policy, as-written, is not the way to do it.
It’s not that easy for some of us. I’m using the voyager app on iOS. Otherwise I have no idea or technical knowledge to get on Lemmy. I don’t know how to change instances and keep what I’ve subscribed to
If you go to the settings (on the website, not in an app) there’s an import/export settings on that page. Save your settings to a file. Then, create an account on a new instance and import that file. Note that you will get subs and blocklist and all that, but your comment history will not follow you.
I don’t use the website. I wouldn’t even know where to go. That’s the problem with Lemmy and the fediverse. I’m not some tech pleeb. I could figure it out, I’m sure, but it’s not where I can just open an opp therefore it’s not something I will do and Lemmy will never supplant Reddit because of that
There’s a lot to unpack here.
You don’t need to change the instance of your account to subscribe to any (with the exception of defederated communitys’ instances) community. You simply need to subscribe to the unpopular opinion community in, for example, lemm.ee instead of the one in lemmy.world. You should’ve figured this out by now, with some communities having a
@<instance>at the end in their names.e.g. [email protected]
That’s not how the app works and shows things. That seems more like desktop stuff which is not something to do. I can already subscribe to anything I want, I just don’t know what I can write since I’ve randomly been banned or muted without comment and I understand it’s because of the bullshit moderators I’m on. Someone had to tell me I was on world and now I see it by going to my settings. Otherwise everything looks like and works like Reddit in the app
I’m using Voyager and I’m amazed you’ve managed to get as far as leaving multiple comments while pretending it doesn’t make Lemmy functionality like instances clear
How can one get this far into the fediverse while being so ignorant of it & unwilling to learn the basics so hard?
Was that really necessary?
Yup
I’d say no if this guy wasn’t here for almost a year. He also didn’t even know what his account’s instance was until someone told him. Apparently Voyager never made the instance of a community or user visible in the app, so he was unaware of instances.
New people are good and all, but I really dislike ones that don’t even try to learn the absolute basics of the platform they are going to use.
My personal motto: there are no stupid questions, but there are many inquisitive idiots.
Maybe the other person was just being willfully obtuse to score a “point” in the debate they thought they were having. It’s weird but you see people double down all the time once they’ve stated decided their argument.
Not really. I don’t understand the fediverse at a basic level—what makes it different from Reddit or digg. I heard about it on Reddit, but never even used the website there. I came from Alien Blue. It seems like people are just telling me to close this account and create a new one but using more complex language like “migrate to another instance” but I can see every instance and don’t understand what’s the point.