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r/morbidquestions. I don't think it's coming here any time soon as it's a moderation hell and lemmy doesn't seem very into morbid stuff.
Yeah, I started one here, told the folks on the discord about it, and nobody ever switched.
Mind you, I abandoned the sub a ways before reddit shit the bed in '23, but it had a warm and bloody place in my heart, and some of the people there were/are genuinely great folks.
Tbh, I think here moderation would be easy enough for now. Lemmy runs higher to people that actually read community rules. And, since there's a lot less limits to what can be discussed overall, a small team could handle it as long as they aren't all in the same time zone.
But, over on reddit, automod could handle most of it anyway. Throw in some keywords, set it to filter for mod review, and you're good to go. Without that, if it got as big as the subreddit did, it could get to be a serious job.
I was actually wondering if you're the same southsamurai from there. Your comments were always super detailed and informative. I also haven't visited the sub in a while but it did have a culture of low/more chaotic moderation which I guess attracted similar users. Maybe we could do without that here.
That's me :)
I always tried hard to be as accurate and honest as I could be without crossing lines. I still do, though it's rare to run across stuff here that draws on the same set of experiences and reading that morbidquestions did.
The moderation actually improved a bit, imo. Reddit screwed up a lot of things, but they wiped out mods that had disappeared and got new ones in place that actively moderated. Or, that was my impression from conversations on discord and irl. I burnt out hard on the sub because of the spotty moderation, and then the api thing happened and I left reddit.
I still believe that forums like that are important. Not just as a safety valve for people, but to demystify some of the less pleasant subjects that people aren't willing to talk about irl, and when they do, it's hard to find good information. I'd love for a spot on lemmy to be active the way the sub was, and the way the discord sometimes is.
Lemmy definitely needs some more mod tools like this, and I'm surprised that there still aren't. Has no one made anything like this yet?
I think there's a bot that does some of it, but none of the communities I'm a moderator on have ever needed moderation. Lemmy is not prone to the level of malicious bullshit reddit was/is in smaller communities. So I've never looked into what's available.
But it would be something external for sure, because the functionality isn't built into lemmy, and I don't think the folks doing the development want to have it built in.
Huh, that seems a bit odd. Why would that be? Seems like mod tools will be increasingly needed as Lemmy grows.
It's more that it's low on their priority list
The current tools probably work good enough for them if they just need to instance-ban people 😅
"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
I think Lemmy could benefit from some more... nuanced mod tools.
Like blaze said it's priorities. Small team by necessity, so you have to pick your projects.
Stability and reliability trump everything else. As long as lemmy has been around at this point, it's still really early in development, or that's what I've heard developers say. I don't have the skills to say anything in that regard. So they put their time and effort into what they consider most important.
And I can see where more mod tools is lower on the list compared to things like database management and such. Basic functionality is there, and the user base is not so big that they can't get the job done. It would sure be nice though