blue_berry@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoHypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmylemmy.worldimagemessage-square159fedilinkarrow-up1654arrow-down131
arrow-up1623arrow-down1imageHypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmylemmy.worldblue_berry@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square159fedilink
minus-squareThe Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down2·1 year agoA couple of beehaw admin had questions about the status of moderation tooling and the Lemmy Devs were like “not an emphasis”
minus-squareagent_flounder@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoI kind of feel like that may be a major strategic mistake. It won’t be long before any given instance is overrun with alt right or other disruptive sorts if there aren’t good tools to help moderators/admins. One of beehaw’s admins’ feature requests is for more granular instance controls such as blocking (defederating) at the community level.
minus-squareVentraSqwal@links.dartboard.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoTo be fair, I think at the time, Lemmy had major performance issues. I can see how sorting that out is a big priority as well.
A couple of beehaw admin had questions about the status of moderation tooling and the Lemmy Devs were like “not an emphasis”
I kind of feel like that may be a major strategic mistake.
It won’t be long before any given instance is overrun with alt right or other disruptive sorts if there aren’t good tools to help moderators/admins.
One of beehaw’s admins’ feature requests is for more granular instance controls such as blocking (defederating) at the community level.
To be fair, I think at the time, Lemmy had major performance issues. I can see how sorting that out is a big priority as well.