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Which do you recommend?
Currently, it's mostly manual removals which isn't sustainable if the platform grows. Various instances are experimenting with their own moderation tools outside of Lemmy, and I don't think Lemmy itself has any features to combat this. Moderation improvements is something that's been talked about with Sublinks.
What additional measures could further improve these efforts?
Having an 'automod', similar to but more advanced than Reddit, would help a lot as the first step. No one likes excess use of automod, but not having it at all will be much worse. Having an improved automod system with guides and tips on how to use it effectively, will go a long way towards making moderation easier.
Do you have any guides or tips for others that might want to do the same?
'clean up your PC' type programs get sketchy, so reliable recommendations would be appreciated
I must have had a very surface level understanding of what it was. The parts I saw previously were about finding which charities to donate to and career development.
I've got more to read about for sure
Looks like it's open source, but very dead
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Sorting by new gets around 1-3 posts a day, site wide
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the top post of all time was 6 years ago and it was discussing the shut down of Voat
So while they might not have recent hate speech, it seems like that's the community that started there. Sort by top all to see the context
rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism
I hadn't heard of any controversies around EA, it always seemed like a positive thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism
So what I'm getting is that the philosophies aren't the problem, but rather it's members of the community doing unethical things in the name of the movement
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Sam Bankman-Fried
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Bay Area Misogyny
In a 2023 Time magazine article, seven women reported misconduct and controversy in the effective altruism movement. They accused men within the movement, typically in the Bay Area, of using their power to groom younger women for polyamorous sexual relationships.[147] The accusers argued that the majority male demographic and the polyamorous subculture combined to create an environment where sexual misconduct was tolerated, excused or rationalized away.
Still bad and needs calling out
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misskey
My understanding is that Misskey is a lot older, from before the Fediverse and ActivityPub was a thing. It's very popular in Japan, so it might not have as much content from other places.
Firefish (formerly known as Calckey) is an actively developed fork of Misskey that hopes to add many requested community features.
So firefish was started because Misskey development slowed (or stopped?), but it has had issues recently
https://fediversereport.com/an-uncertain-future-for-firefish/
Personally I would filter and only look at platforms that are open source and Fediverse/ActivityPub compatible. Otherwise it will suffer from similar issues as the other alternatives (centralization, lack of community/momentum, takeovers).
As long as the platform federates nicely then it really comes down to personal preference. The content and communities can grow independently :)
The platforms that come to mind for that are Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and Sublinks. I'm probably missing some other good ones
I think that's because it's filtered to Lemmy software, and sorted from largest to smallest. Once you do that, it looks similar
For what it's worth, it doesn't realistically change much, since Lemmy (software) doesn't federate with Threads in any meaningful way. There are some benefits, but my understanding is that the benefits are mostly symbolic. This is also why you might see more discussion around Mastodon instances staying federated with Threads, because there are tangible benefits and drawbacks to that decision.
As for WHY an instance might want to stay Federated, see some discussion from this other thread here: "If we're going to have an effective strategy against FB/Meta, we should clear up some misconceptions around defederation"
It's not as simple as "that instance is a traitor", and attacking other users/admins over this without considering the nuance is silly. For example, lemmy.ca has blocked Threads, but I'm not going to go around attacking others over a decision that's based on how each of us is predicting the future of the Fediverse to play out.
I might actually recommend it for anything except financials. Financials are very important to have access to, and sometimes your email address is the only way to access your account.
~~I want something very stable as my email address for such cases, because I don't want to risk my email alias provider shutting down, or my self hosted setup to randomly die. Or even some weird "security measure" where the bank decides that any unknown domain is no longer ok.~~
In such cases, I want my email address to be reliable. Email alias providers shut down from time to time, and I don't trust my skills to set up a reliable self hosted option. If my setup breaks after an upgrade, I might be out of luck till I can change my email with the banks.
Banks also have their own policies, and sometimes they make questionable decisions in the name of "security". Companies already block certain alias domains, and there are stories out there of people being locked out of their online accounts after a domain was blocked. Banks are meant to be trustworthy so they may take an even harder stance on it. They may decide to restrict the common alias domains (ex. citing that spammers use them), or even restrict personal accounts to the big email providers (ex. Gmail).
For example, some bank apps don't work on phones with a custom OS (grapheneOS). Singapore went even further with:
Ultimately it's a lot of risk for a very small reward. If you use a different password for everything (you should), then someone knowing your email still won't be able to do much. The bank itself would have way more information about you, so it's not like you're protecting yourself from the bank with a custom email.