I got sucker punched by a few. Here is what happened.
I get a message from someone on a different instance saying they are setting up a community with similar interests to one I currently moderate. They ask if I can help get their community going by posting some of the things I currently post, which trying to be helpful I do.
Within a week or two, they are using those posts as an excuse for defederation because we are invading their instance.
I have learnt my lesson. Will not be so helpful in the future.
WHAT ??? Those sneaky fucking bastards dudes. Was it shit just works?
I cannot even remember who the people were now.
One of the communities was discussing gender stuff. I can’t remember the others, but I am sure you saw them mentioned if you followed the defederation debates on some of the other instances.
I got banned from lemmy.blahaj.zone for trying to start an honest discussion about trans people. Looks like they ban anyone who doesn’t treat them as gods
They’re gods in the samd way mark ruffulo is a masculine hulk
Yup. It’s just going to be a bunch of fragmented communities honestly. I don’t see the fediverse working as a Reddit alternative
I got banned from lemm.ee and accused of being a fascist within a couple of days after only making about a half a dozen posts some of which evidently betrayed the fact that I am not a Marxist.
I helped multiple users use lemmy better, didn’t really get political on their instances and multiple times advised them on the block features of lemmy. They proceeded to call me nazi, bigot, scum, monster, ban me, block my instance and act like gigantic bitches
That’s so messed up
GAYS AND removedS AND FURRIES EVERYWHERE Even on the solarpunk instance, threexchromosomes shows up prominently on local. How is that solarpunk related?
Dude, all this Shits going to get fragmented. I’m still looking for replacements if reddit does that crypto bullshit. The fediverse is perfect for totalitarian moderators it’s not good to users
I haven’t bothered much: except for a few niche interests that we don’t really have here, they don’t really have anything to offer for me. And in those interests, if I run into something where I have a question or want feedback, I can usually find an answer somewhere else on the web. For what’s left, if I need to ask a large number of people on a heavily censored network, then Reddit has a numbers advantage and I don’t see what lemmy.world or any of the other pro-censorship instances offer over Reddit other than different masters.
I was thinking about starting subs for those interests here but never got around to asking how moderation works (like one of the interests had been invaded by removed**removeds on Reddit so I don’t want to bother unless I can make similar rules to dankmemes/dmt and explicitly forbid removed**removed shit as being off-topic). Plus wasn’t sure how that would be impacted if we move to nostr
When you set up your own community, you become the moderator and define the rules in the community. You can add other moderators as you see fit.
At an instance level, I just monitor the reports that come in and make sure sure there is no child porn, etc.
Be smart about the subject lines that appear in the local feed as they effect the whole instance.
I would welcome you to set up and if any problems crop up we will deal with them then.
But you seen how we operate here. We try to censor as little as possible.
Thanks Kapow. Hadn’t been sure before if special clearance was needed or what.
Be smart about the subject lines that appear in the local feed as they effect the whole instance.
Not sure I completely get this part. Does this just mean don’t have bad language etc? Or something more?
For instance, one of the things that I was specifically thinking about was on some reddit subs for Linux, some trans people started coming in and posting gross pictures of men’s legs with thigh-high socks calling them “programming socks” as some kind of trans joke. Even leaving my disgust for it aside, I think that kind of thing was off topic even in the original Reddit subs, but pointing it out obviously didn’t get me anything but grief there. Not sure how best to handle if we had some kind of Linux sub here. E.g. is the recommended way to just say it is off topic and therefore should be posted in some other sub, or let free speech reign supreme / don’t even mention it in sub rules as I can still just user-block anyone doing it (assuming we get those types here), or something else?
Would nostr migration mean creating new from scratch or we would port existing subs or way too early to know?
A good Linux community would be great.
If stuff is off topic, then say so and remove it. I do not think that is unreasonable.
I think you will find we have a pretty good crew here with an occasional troll to be dealt with.
We are still at the early stages of looking at Nostr, I would not hold back on account of that.
Awesome, thanks man
I think you should it’s a great idea. 'Different masters ’ very well put!
I’ve made posts about mine, tldr:
Spoke my mind about topics I disagree on, showed my proof, my own personal stories, and had an open mind for debate. NOPE! was. Called a monster and that I didnt care about human lives!.. We were talking about abortion.
Dam. Yea abortion is a tough one for me. Honestly don’t know how I feel about it. I definitely don’t agree with how the left wants it on demand at the point of birth. Though
