The heck is this nonsense? Instance admins please take note of this attempt to mislead the community members. @nutomic @dessalines @AgreeableLandscape...
I was on Voat when it was a pleasant community like Lemmy, and I tried to nudge for civility as over time every post became hateful and angry. I would still browse Voat occasionally until it shut down because I value diversity of thought, and I was curious to encounter rhetoric which contradicted my own beliefs.
Lemmy is not so different, however, instead of having a far-right bias Lemmy has a far-left bias. For now there are no far-right Lemmy instances to balance far-left instances like Lemmygrad.ml. This creates an atmosphere where right-leaning, and centrist users might take one look around and feel unwelcome.
I think it is important that left-leaning, centrist, and right-leaning users feel welcome while leaving bigotry at the door. We need for someone who is bigoted to feel welcome here by all of their other traits, and to erode their bigoted beliefs over time because bigotry is not tolerated. I think Lemmy and the Fediverse have real potential to foster a space where diverse users can share stories and form communities with users who hold very different beliefs.
Voat showed it is not enough to create an open platform with unmoderated free speech, the platform itself must have structures in place to promote civility, and the users of the platform must work hard to maintain a culture of civility. The fact that QAnon believers are not welcome here means that Lemmy has already siloed itself, and I believe that the current policy of non-federation with disagreeable instances is too strict to be a long-term viable solution.
I think the key here is reminding ourselves why we are on lemmy, as opposed to other social media sites. I’ll speak for myself, having recently discovered lemmy on reddit while looking for alternatives to that site:
Lack of corporation/state control (i.e. tencent buying a stake in reddit),
Lack of censorship (while bearing in mind that individual communities can and should retain the right to enforce rules)
Privacy (lightweight interface which doesn’t sell your data to advertisers)
A new start (ideally learning from mistakes of previous forum/social media endeauvours)
In my opinion structurally incentivising long form debate as opposed to hot takes in political/worldnews instances is one way of improving the discourse. I enjoy the r/geopolitics approach (though I am aware that many here will disagree with the political slant of that subreddit), in that submissions are heavily regulated and require an input from the OP as to why they are posting a given source.
One thing I would also say from my perspective, is that I am a novice in regards to the technical elements of lemmy as far as federalised platforms and struggle to participate in technology based privacy discussions.
Perhaps outreach from the more tech savvy elements of the lemmy community towards “tech novices” (among whom I count myself) in regards to internet privacy and the privacy benifits of lemmy and other such endeauvours would be helpful here in retaining users. It should be easy to find a simple explanation on the advantages of lemmy vis a vis other (hopefully soon to be) obsolete (heh) platforms.
Some of these points don’t directly attatch to the discussion of the OP, but I feel this thread has engendered much discussion in the wider community.
tl;dr: privacy, lack of massed external interference good, outreach to less tech savvy, but privacy interested users good, dispensing with a datascraping monetisation model very good, repeating mistakes of established platforms bad bad bad
I’m not sure what the current state of federalization is. I’ve tried to find it in the GUI but didn’t find an option to subscribe a community from another instance.
if both instances are federated with each other, you can simply copy the url of the community on another instance and paste it into the search field of your instance, then click on the community that pops up
from there you can subscribe to it to see posts from it in your feed, upvote/downtove/make posts and comments
One thing you should consider is that all Lemmy instances and communities are moderated by volunteers in their free time. It is important that we make their job as easy as possible, so they dont get overworked, and can focus on other tasks. If we removed the slur filter, it would cause a lot of extra work for them, as they would have to decide in each case if the slur usage is justified or not.
Like we said many times before, removing the slur filter is not up for debate, not unless someone comes up with a better alternative. But we are always open to discuss adding or removing certain terms.
If this is a deal breaker for you then thats okay, I’m sure there are many other platforms where you can use these terms.
I also talked with one of the official members about the possibility of them administrating this community and/or hosting their own instance and they say maybe, so hurray!
Strong moderation abilities, and instance admins like ourselves who actually ban white supremacist communities and not sit on their hands about hosting the largest one on the internet, for years.
edit: like just today, we had a few TERF communities try to set up here. It took us less than a day to ban them. Its not difficult.
I have the API written out here. The forums are considered groups in activitypub lingo, im not sure if mastodon supports following them. But thats the main federation ability, to be able to follow communities on other instances.
Can we discuss why soferman decided to purposely rename Liberal News sublemmy and confuse everyone? (lemmy.ml)
The heck is this nonsense? Instance admins please take note of this attempt to mislead the community members. @nutomic @dessalines @AgreeableLandscape...
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 Happy pride month!! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 (lemmy.ml)
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ktM7WtDoYD.png...
What do you think about recent events on c/worldnews? Should we try to prevent such behaviors?
so if you haven’t come across it, see here , here , here and here ....
Can I subscribe a community from another instance?
I’m not sure what the current state of federalization is. I’ve tried to find it in the GUI but didn’t find an option to subscribe a community from another instance.
A multiply-marginalised person's take on the Lemmy slur filter
Disclaimer: I am a multiply marginalized person on the radical left....
I created an issue to list Lemmy on PT! (github.com)
I also talked with one of the official members about the possibility of them administrating this community and/or hosting their own instance and they say maybe, so hurray!
r/The_Donald has been banned on Reddit, what's to stop those users turning Lemmy into what became of Voat?
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Feel free to ask the devs any questions here.