• anticurrent@sh.itjust.works
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    20 days ago

    Reddit power tripping mods migrated en masse to lemmy.world and recreated another Reddit environment there ! glad the fedivere isn’t constrained to big servers. but this is still a big problem to resolve as those mods make it hard to engage in conversations with communities that are solely hosted on their instances.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukM
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      20 days ago

      with communities that are solely hosted on their instances.

      This is the beauty of the Fediverse. If you don’t like the way a community is being run, start a new one. It’s a drum @Blaze@feddit.org has been beating for a while.

      As a matter of principle we should be wary of centralisation and think carefully about where to start a community. I’d also suggest starting communities elsewhere if the main one is on lemmy.ml.

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      19 days ago

      Hold up a sec, now you’re just smearing people

      It’s just a mod in a COMMUNITY, lemmy.world has been pretty free-speech friendly

      I would be more careful of BeeHaw & Sh.itjust.works & Lemmy.cafe, if you wanted to raise suspicions

      Also, There’s Mbin/Kbin & PieFed as alternatives to Lemmy

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        19 days ago

        Beehaw gets a pass because they are trying to make a safe space. It’s literally their motive. The mods there have repeatedly said they are anti-free-speech, but they are massively inclusive (until that inclusivity hurts someone else, IE they don’t include transphobes, homophobes, Nazis etc).
        Beehaw is a really friendly and welcoming place, they have great discussions, posts etc. Just… Treat everyone like a human, and don’t be a cunt.

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          19 days ago

          Surprisingly Beehaw is more welcoming than LW. LW is just full of power tripping ex-Redditors. I’d actually say that Reddit is better these days. It’s mind boggling…

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            19 days ago

            Beehaw is more welcoming, but them not federating LW and SJW probably removes 90% of the Lemmy content to their users.

            Also, they don’t plan to update to newer Lemmy versions, which also prevents their users from using new features like instance blocking.

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              19 days ago

              Again, that’s their game plan.

              Federating with certain instances increases their moderators workload. Their moderators/admins are expected to perform at a high level (provide a safe place).
              Beehaw respects their moderators/admins. So without the adequate moderation tools, defederation is pretty much their only option.
              They are considering other community platforms. They are hoping federation/Lemmy works for them, but they aren’t willing to compromise on their community goals

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                I am aware they want to switch to another software, and that’s fine.

                It just seems a bit ironic that they complained a lot in the past (and rightfully so) about the lack of moderation tools, but now they don’t offer their users a very powerful one: user-level instance blocking.

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.org
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        19 days ago

        I would be more careful of BeeHaw & Sh.itjust.works & Lemmy.cafe, if you wanted to raise suspicions

        What do you mean? I’ve used Lemmy.cafe for a while, never noticed anything worrying. Same for SJW.

        Beehaw has been addressed in the other comment.