this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2024
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Don't think I've seen anything from the .world admins that makes me second-guess making my home here. Not to say they're perfect, but I don't think I've seen anything that would make me think "Wow, these guys are in some way, fundamentally objectionable" rather than "These are amateurs making amateur mistakes, as one might expect from a volunteer service."
Some of the more established mod teams are less than stellar, though. Plenty of good mods, but certainly a fair share of mediocre or tetchy ones. ~~my tetchy self included~~
I wasn’t trying to say they were bad, nothing like that. I agree, there are some great people, yourself included. I’m more thinking in terms of:
I wasn’t trying to imply they were bad people by any means. Just raising a question about why to make them the default when there are options that don’t do those things.
It’s a follow-on problem, I think, stemming from the combination of the volunteer nature and the scope of how much they’ve bitten off. I finished, this week, the first draft of my magnum opus essay about problems of incentives in the Lemmyverse where I talk more about this and will probably post it soon.
Wasn't the Beehaw defederation something to do with open sign-ups on .world at one point?
Otherwise, yeah, I get that. It'll be good for other instances to take up more of the load, both for the Fediverse as a whole and for .world in particular.
Strongly agree
We've been working on [email protected] and [email protected] , which are now more active than [email protected] and [email protected] , but some people keep posting on the LW versions for whatever reason
Well, you're never going to capture 100% of the audience of another comm on a decentralized place like the Fediverse. If you're interested, though, you might try reaching out to the mods of those two to discuss getting a pinned post directing to the more-active community? Or at least a mention in the sidebar.
Indeed, but on the other hand a very common complain on threads asking about current Lemmy issues is how discussion is fragmented across several posts for the same link: https://lemmy.world/post/20926036?scrollToComments=true
It wouldn't be that much if an issue if we had 100k monthly active users, but with our current userbase, we are probably too low to have multiple similar active communities to coexist.
There's also the choice problem: people in that same thread also complain about not knowing where to post when there are two similar communities, and end up not posting at all.
The television one is unmoderated.
Last time I reached out to the movies community to consider maybe redirecting to ours as they were looking for new mods, they removed my comment.
https://lemmy.world/modlog/1291 5 months ago
The Beehaw admins explain it.. In their own words:
I think beehaw said that accounts from .world were causing a level of moderation load that made it effectively impossible for them to provide the types of community they wanted to have.
I get it. I don’t even know whether it is anything related to .world, or just because of you host half the users then you will also host half the trash which will look like a lot. I have noticed that when things get too big, something gets lost.
To be fair, Beehaw is still running on 0.18.3, even though the current Lemmy version addresses some of the issues they had.
I'm not sure what the status is on their side. I get that they don't like the Lemmy devs, but then Piefed could be an option, it's probably feature equivalent to their version of Lemmy
Lol keep being tetchy PugJesus, we like you that way 😂
I have observed mod action and bans of users when no rules were violated on lemmy.world several times. The news and political subs might as well be on .ml as they heavily censor opposing views. I’m not talking about anything against the written rules. There’s lots of unwritten ones.
Mods on other instances at times follow the ideas of lemmy.world, so you might get automatically banned elsewhere.
Getting banned means all your posts and communities get deleted without a trace.
sh.itjust.works has been good so far.
Feel free to report those on [email protected]
That really helps to call out power tripping