This dude posts a wildly racist meme of Michelle Obama. I report the post. Funnily enough, the racist post is posted by the mod of dankmemes, dankchristianmemes and some other shit hole.
Said mod then starts sending abusive transphobic messages to me. Try to report the user. Nothing happens when I hit the button.
Shit like this is why Lemmy isn't a viable alternative yet. We need to do better and be better.
Hello everyone. This is Michelle, one of the Lemmy.world Admins/Moderators.
I want to let you know that if you are reporting a post/comment from a community moderator, please message me and let me know your concern. Especially if it relates to the violation of server rules for hate speech, racism, threats, or calls to violence.
If it’s a Lemmy.world community, they can resolve the report before we have a chance to see it. So please let me know if no action is being taken.
If the community is on another instance, we can see the reports you submit. We can ban and remove the posts/comments from our side.
We have zero tolerance for homophobia, racism, hate speech, bullying, child pornography, and many others that are listed under our server rules.
The moderation tools we currently have are not very robust, but I hope this helps clarify what can be done to escalate issues.
Can we please defederate from exploding-heads.com? Nothing good comes from there.
Wow, that instance looks like a cesspool.
Noob question: can we, at the individual user-level, block entire instances?
It's an often requested feature that I'm sure will come to Lemmy sooner rather than later, but in the meantime there is a bit of a workaround: if you're using a browser then you can block a whole instance using ublock origin. Note that Firefox mobile supports ublock as well.
I'll try to find the post with instructions and then edit my comment to include it here.
EDIT: here you go https://lemmy.world/post/435133
Some apps allow it, like Connect.
A post on that goofball server says:
So we won't have to deal with their whiny racist sexist bullshit for long.
If you're curious an accurate tl;dr of the post that's from is "waah we can't be total shitheads with impunity while also telling everyone else what to do, so we're going to ~~voat~~ nostr where other insufferable brats also go."
👏 Amazing 👏, please ban this
fisuxcelbigotSoooo... I don't see any way to report abusive mod behavior at all here on lemmy - there doesn't even seem to be a way to let the other mods of a given community know about the behavior of one of their mods. I've just been suspended from World News because one of the mods there decided that the term white supremacist counts as a perjorative.
Emmm... yes. So can I. It's in the modlog, isn't it?
I was under the impression I was responding to an admin... right up there.
Not the sidebar I'm looking at... the only option is to individually message the mods themselves. Should I have messaged all of them or just picked one?
Please clarify your stance on this very clearly so that everybody is perfectly clear on this - do you or do you not consider the term white supremacist to be some kind of racial perjorative?
I'm not an admin, so I can't see whatever deleted comments they're talking about, but fyi: there's only one R in pejorative.
(I know you weren't asking me, but no, white supremacist is not a pejorative, any more than environmentalist or progressive is. They're all just descriptors that can be used in otherwise appropriate or inappropriate statements)
Thank you for the correction - it's not a word I care to use much. Also... I copy-pasted it from World News's sidebar.
I have no idea how terms like environmentalist or progressive can be used as pejoratives.
I kinda need the people with executive power to answer this - I might be new to Lemmy, but I'm not new to these kinds of discussions, and I know better than to invest energy in tackling issues of white supremacism when the people with executive power do not understand (or don't want to understand) how white supremacism actually works.
edit: Yes, you can see the comments - it's all in the modlog down at the bottom of the page.