this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And please actively remind people to remain civil. We can be better than Reddit in so many ways. I believe!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think Lemmy is and will be quite good at remaining civil because the questionable content makers use their own instances and get defederated. The most edgy community federated with the main cluster I found is [email protected]. It features cryptic posts that presumably make sense if you engage in the decentralized (IRC? Telnet??) discourse channels of sdf.org and some appear to be pro-fascist depending on how you interpret the questionable veil of sarcasm. I don't think it's serious enough to consider defederation because the worst ones get massively downvoted anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

If it helps any, those memes go straight over my head.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

They're not just staying on those instances tho...

When they get defederated (usually long before) they find a small boutique instance (that's actually valid) but didn't bother to set up any requirements for account creation then make a shit ton of accounts to troll with.

If you ever look at the main modlog you'll see there's a significant amount getting banned on a daily basis.

But they just go make another, and even tho most instances are doing something about it, there's a surprising amount of zombie instances no one will ever change but are still running for some reason and federated with large instances.

Eventually the main ones will need to "prune" a lot of instances, which shouldn't be surprising considering a year ago everyone wanted to federate with everyone.

Imagine just walking thru a city and inviting literally everyone to come hang out at your apartment, even giving them the door code to get I to your building. That's kind of what happened.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. However, we need to solve the chicken-and-egg problem of niche communities. For example, there is no Czech community at all after both the czech-lemmy.eu and kyberpunk.social instances went down. It's only once the communities get going and start appearing in "All/Active" feeds that I'd worry about serious moderation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a tough position to be in for non-English and regional communities. For something like a game you can cross post in both a general videogames community and a more specific one and help people find it, but there's not much of an option for any sort of non-English non-pop culture topic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Feddit.org is quite active

Jlai.lu has 600 monthly active users on the main community