- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
I browse different lemmy instances usually because the feed is always different. Was blown away when I recently went to lemmy.today, no clue when they did the change but whoever is in charge of the design has my admiration! (chef’s kiss)
Edit: just scrolled down and realized rule 3, don’t know why I thought this was a generic pic community lol (must’ve confused what I was seeing posts from). I’ll try to find a place to crosspost or repost if I need to or a mod boots it out.
Yeah I dont believe instance admins should choose those things for their users. There are options for users to block other instances themselves if they want to.
I think for giant instances, perhaps it makes sense, because moderation could become a full time job otherwise, specially if they want to have strict rules what people can say.
But yeah, im old school and I believe in letting users make that choice themselves. Im ok with seeing opinions i dont agree with, and I hope our users are also. :)
But they allow safe harbor for ban evading trolls, so fuck em.
I think this depends what you mean with trolls. Some users who are called trolls by other users are not trolls in my opinion. Its just users expressing an opinion that the other user doesnt agree with.
To be a troll, you have to intentionally post things to upset others. If I post my opinion on something and you call me a troll because of it, that means im a troll? No it just means thats what you think about me. Its not a universal opinion that everyone shares.
Users who only post things that upsets others are banned also from lemmy.today. Its not designed to be a safe haven for actual trolls. But it does allow users to have unpopular opinions. The job of the moderator is to know when a user is an actual troll and when he just has an opinion that is not popular. There is a big difference.
This sounds amazing, Lemmy is extremely far left wing so any discussion right of that usually devolves into people being called nazi’s and zionists and capitalists etcetc but I can’t really join because
There’s too much left wing shit on Lemmy and the instance blocks don’t realllly work, I still get responses and see comments from instances I’ve blocked, it just blocks the communities not anything else
Yeah ok. Hopefully this can be improved in future versions of the lemmy software. I think its designed to not show those responses and comments from blocked instances. Are you sure you are looking at the Subscribed view? I dont know this, but maybe the All view will not take blocked instances into account, and the other one will? But i dont know.
nah I have full instance blocks on lemmy.ml for example and I still saw this post from the OP
By allowing users to choose their instance we are giving them that choice though. I chose piefed.social in part because I agree with the moderation policy, and I don’t want to waste my time doing it myself. I want to have reasonable admins who filter away stuff I don’t want to see before it ever gets to me. That is a choice I have as a user, just like the choice you (and users of your instance) have to do this job yourself.
The important thing is transparency, in my opinion.
100% agree with this. Its good that we have many options, its good for the ecosystem as a whole.