• spujb@lemmy.cafe
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    2 days ago

    when i saw that announcement post i literally did a double take at my watch to make sure it wasn’t April Fool’s Day

    like that’s how dumb this idea was i thought it was a joke at first

    • sbv@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      Having an architecture that locks communities to an instance is a problem. They should be distributed across the network with no notion of a home instance.

        • SoftTeeth@lemmy.world
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          Either you have global moderation rules or communities will leave the instances with bad and inconsistent mods

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            if communities don’t have a home instance, how do they leave the instances with bad mods? would this mean that different communities can federate independently, as determined by community moderators?

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              23 hours ago

              This is a situation where I see a community leaving an instance with bad moderation.

              I don’t like .world but it’s the best instance I’ve found so far

        • leisesprecher@feddit.org
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          3 days ago

          Moderation is also just an event in the protocol, just like votes or comments. Your instance would simply have to aggregate all those events, just like the current “home instances” do for their communities.

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          3 days ago

          Probably better than whatever batshit moderation happens right now on the tankie instances

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          It would be different. The end-user would have to moderate their feeds, they’d have to find the same community provided by platform hosts who align with the users moderation values, or be ok with hiding content themselves.

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            The end-user would have to moderate their feeds

            Ah yes, I love a feed where I have to view and delete the alt-right trolls and CSAM myself.

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            PieFed (the non-tankie Lemmy alternative written in Python rather than Rust) allows for that. Atm it’s fairly primitive unless you make your own instance but ultimately it democratizes the moderation process to allow the end user what they want to see or not. Like instead of “remove” or “allow” content, it can automatically be “collapsed” with an option to uncollapse it whenever someone chooses. And/or labels can be placed next to usernames - like “<2 week old account” or “has 10x more downvotes than upvotes” - except it is actually icons that are used rather than such long phrases. You can put custom icons of any type next to any individual user that you want, for any reason - e.g. to help their comments stand out as you scroll, or to remind you to be careful replying, or whatever custom reason you chose to remind yourself of.

            Edit: and all that I’ve said here is already available. So I guess it’s not so primitive after all, especially when keyword filters get added (new features appear all the time - it being in Python makes its development cycle FAST!), but what I meant is that even more is planned, to further reduce the manual burden of moderation efforts. Also, the entire sidebar appears below every single post, unlike in some apps where it it quite buried behind several clicks. It’s not fully ready for the masses yet but it’s coming along nicely, and already has several features that Lemmy lacks (and vice versa unfortunately).

            Edit 2: based on db0’s comment, I should mention that PieFed also has Mastodon style tags too, on top of not only communities but on top of that too there are Categories of Communities. This is getting confusing to describe so just look at this example - the hierarchy above the post shows the Categories, the tags are below it, and the YouTube link is natively embedded in between.

              • OpenStars@piefed.social
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                Which will lead to faster development?

                Or are you saying that the code will be shittier as a result? I do wonder about that, but also if the errors can get made quickly enough and then resolved, the overall process could still end up being faster?:-P

                • hark@lemmy.world
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                  Just joking since I’m not a fan of Python’s design choices, but I do worry that as development goes on the tech debt will pile up and will be more difficult to maintain.

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    The fuck is 196 anyway? I’ve got the original in my block list and I genuinely can’t remember why…

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      20 hours ago

      Shitposting? I guess?

      The rule being that you gotta post something before you leave- doesn’t really matter what. (Barring the usual hate/NSFW/etc.)

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        20 hours ago

        That explains it I guess. Come a slow news day and it’ll be annoying as shit again.

  • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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    2 days ago

    Drag saw 196 mods mentioning their plan to move instances after Ada told them not to misgender trans people. “Ideological differences”, huh? Wonder what that’s code for

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      You did piss off a couple of powerusers dedicated to instance wars, but the mods are working to insist that’s not what any of this is about.

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        In the past 15 hours drag has read a lot about why the mods did it. Apparently, they weren’t closing reports on Blahaj, so Ada actioned them, and Ada was stricter with the rules than they liked.

        When Ada said neopronouns aren’t trolling, drag saw a lot of transphobic comments on 196 that the mods weren’t removing. Drag was already banned from the community at that time and couldn’t report them, so drag contacted Ada directly, and Ada removed them.

        At that time, moving the community out of the instance was a “maybe”. Perhaps neopronouns were the last straw. At the time, the 196 mods were saying they didn’t agree with the removals and bans of transphobia and misgendering.

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    I don’t fully understand this.

    While having one big instance is not ideal, isn’t the idea that it should be easy to move once and if the big instance becomes draconian?

    I thought the whole point of the fediverse was not to get locked into a walled garden and be able to decentralize as needed, ending up with a few big players is inevitable, no?

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      I’ve heard it’s supposed to be ready to move, but I still haven’t figured out the new “easy” way of moving my stuff to a new instance, at least on Voyager

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        Convince the admins of the original instance to hand over the community on that instance to new mods, open it back up and let the old mods have their tantrum over on .world? Literally nothing requires there only be one community of a given name across all instances.

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        When you ban everyone who disageees, then it appears like the community is doing well.

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        Okay yeah that’s a problem.

        Mods have been weird lately, my comment got removed for using the R word, not retardant.

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            I was working on a retarder today (am diesel mechanic) unfortunately whoever designed it was fucking retarded cause fuck me was it a cunt to get out

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              I remember seeing a retarder button when I was a kid and allowed to play in a big vehicle. Followed by obvious pushing of the button and pointing at your friend.

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      2 days ago

      Thanks for keeping us up-to-date and jumping across communities/instances for this

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        Omg the disparity is palpable.

        The post you linked:

        we are going to continue to moderate on this instance exactly the same as we did on blahaj.zone.

        The “we’ve already left” style post on blahaj:

        Why? That’s a complicated question with a long answer! The primary difference is moderatorial and ideologial differences between my team and Ada’s excellent team of admins…

        Edit: so in asking whether the moderation will appear the same to the users, the answer is “well yes, except actually no”.

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        • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Even better one mod said

          I can guarantee we will not be expected to entertain trolls

          Their ideological differences have clearly been spelled out as not wanting to respect people whose identities they deem invalid.

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            On the other hand, they seem to be doing the community a service… by leaving it and going over to Lemmy.World🤪!

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            Only 2-3 hours old and already 36 posts (less than a minute later 43, I’ll stop updating this now:-), nearly 400 users, 174 subscribers (I guess the others simply voted or commented?) - this is taking off like a rocket!

            The mods forgot the basic Rule of Lemmy: fuck spez.

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                I mean… okay so technically they didn’t, but only technically. I think I saw where you asked the question: who owns a community? They acted like the mods did, and now having FA, they are FO that they in fact do not own it nearly to the degree that the community members themselves do.

                So now the community is split, and they may find themselves having to do a lot less moderation work in the future.

                I contributed a post myself to help them out.:-)

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    Seems like they didn’t get the memo that the entire point of coming here was to decentralize.

    Then again /c/196 sucks so that’s a fitting instance for them. Blahaj is marginally better.