So far Lemmy is vibing. Everyone here is excited and optimistic and willing to put up with a few rough spots to be part of something.

When the Eternal September comes, which it will, how does a Lemmy instance deal with bad actors?

  • ngoomie@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    When the Eternal September comes, which it will, how does a Lemmy instance deal with bad actors?

    i’ll bully them away >:3 !!!

    On the real I feel like Lemmy/the wider linkagg fediverse will prob be good at self-moderating somewhat like other fediverse software’s communities are. It’ll probably be easier for admins to noice bad actors on their instance than it was for site admins on Reddit to notice bad actors there because the admins-to-users ratio on here will probably be better, even if things are kinda concentrated on lemmy.ml, lemmy.world and beehaw right now (people will probably spread out as they get a grip on how things work), and the average user will probably grow a stronger connection with their instance admins for that reason too, making it easier to address things like that since more people will be able to comfortably contact their admins directly. And if said bad actor is from another instance, and the admins of that instance refuse to deal with them, there’s always community-level bans (I think anyways? I’m still not familiar with the comm mod tools) and, if more drastic measures are needed, defederation.

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      1 year ago

      If you go to the bottom of a lemmy instance it has a list of linked and blocked instances

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        1 year ago

        Just from looking at some of those URLs in the blocked instances was enough to unsettle me… Big yikes some of those :(

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          I checked out one of the blocked instances (exploding-heads) a little bit ago - no thanks! Extremist’s haven for sure.