Technology

It appears I'm not allowed to interact on that instance, did lemmy.world defederate from lemmy.ml?

I'm still technically a mod for a small subreddit. I polled the users, they weren't interested in moving over to Lemmy.

(Edit because prematurely posted)

I'm still hoping they'll move over, but tbh it's a good bunch of posters on a niche subject and the mod team has never had to be too active. The topic had a been literally unmodded for years before the current mod team fell into it, so I'm confident we're not needed.

We're literally just a placeholder to keep someone power mad from becoming mod. (Long story long: founding mod abandoned sub, came back after years, was mad the subreddit didn't agree with his crap opinions, made the sub private, I and a few other posters made a new subreddit.)

Finding replacement is one thing. Finding good replacement an entirely different one.

Let's see how many are willing to go through all that regurgitating shit and survive a month in their new profession.

Wonder what the thing that would be tipping point for them would look like.

Either way - shame. I really enjoyed that sub.

I also don't think Lemmy is ready for everyone, especially in terms of moderation. The tools are very limited and hard to access. I have to navigate to each post to deal with it, and the only 3 options (right next to one another) are 'remove post', 'ban from community' and 'appoint as mod'.

There's also no modmail or automod tools, which are really important as a community gets large.

It's fine for now with the communities I'm moderating, but I'd understand if some Reddit communities don't feel ready

Ooooh yes. Something similar happened to me out of the blue back in January. I commented, verbatim:

Random fact that I recently learned and thought was kind of cool. One of the very first responses of your body when you get a cut or infection is to synthesize hydrogen peroxide in the area that signals your white blood cells to rally to that area.

I then linked to Science Daily and Harvard articles about it.

Temporary ban for "Harassment," citing this comment.

Later on I incurred another infraction and my account was permabanned, citing my previous strike as justification for the permanent ban. Smfh. 250 characters to appeal...

Meanwhile these idiots excused cesspools like The_Donald for years. Meanwhile I report a person being objectively racist (Calling them "out of control" and "absolutely feral savages") and... They reviewed it not once but twice and found nothing wrong. LOL.

I wrote this all up in a medium article in more detail but I'm half-tempted to send all my screenshots to Fidelity and some news outlets for shits.

I can't figure out where all the lemmy people posting about reddits "power tripping power mods" were posting. I think I ran across one mod in the wild (niche sub) that I thought was crazy and they got run off the platform eventually. What were people posting that they were getting banned all over the place? Maybe the mods weren't the problem if multiple were banning you?

Sweeping generalizations are never good or correct.

90% of mods did non obvious work like stopping spammers from overrunning subs.

If you think they all ban for fun then the problem is you.

Most mods tend to follow the quantity of reports they receive from the community. If you post something that triggers lots of random users... then you are screwed.

And yes, that also happens on Lemmy... as much as folks around here consider it as a "holy ground filled with saints". :^)

t. A mod threatened to ban me because I was "spamming" -- while I was posting once per day.

Ah, but when a subreddit had mostly mods from that 10%,

AskHistorians, AskScience, WhatIsThisThing, etc.

Maybe this is another example of Sturgeon's law.