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Pry unavoidable, but I bet nearly all the questions will be good-faith ones. For the most part the lemmyverse is still 99% less toxic than reddit.
Yeah agreed, with enough administrators it could be kept to a minimum especially if users help with reporting comments, posts and so on. But it will still be very hard to completely keep Lemmy clean of trolls and all the nasty stuff we would rather stay away from that reddit has become.
I believe it's the users job to help keep the app safe as well. Administrators can't catch everything which is why it's really good to have a report button. I know earlier today I reported something very serious (like incriminating) on reddit and I reported it and I somehow got banned for report spamming but then the person got a temporary ban for illegal activities.. it's just so sad what that place has become
I'm a free speech activist and open sourced enthusiast. I also work in cyber security and to be banned for reporting illegal activity and then have them walk away with a temp ban is pretty disheartening tbh
I think from what I've seen being on here for a couple hours
I love it a lot more we just need to get more active people
The idea behind this site is amazing and I like what it stands for.
You guys (as devs) seem to be working very hard on this and you all seem to really care about free speech and having a friendly and active community
I will be supporting this site from now on and can't wait to create my own communities and see how it turns out in the future <3
I'm new to here and really enjoying it so far. I came here because I'm tired of what reddit has became it's a very dangerous place over there and they should be investigated.
I was curious. I've been a Linux admin for a while and I loved some of the communities on reddit. I'm really good with admin work and watching over communities and servers and wanted to know when I'd be able to create my own community?
I'd love to see a piercing community here where people can talk piercings and ask for advice.
Thank you for making this place awesome so far! I'm also working on my own application
I believe in free speech and open sourced software and I believe in internet security and privacy and always try to inform people on how to stay safe online.
Currently working on my own app similar to this called Freddit meaning ( F*** reddit) 😆
Hey, so you're able to set up a community any time you like. Remember that lemmy is decentralized. Have you considered creating your community on lemmy.tf or another instance? No matter what instance anyone is on, they'll be able to access your community. Alternatively, you can create your own instance and host your communities there.
Hey, I figured it all out after messing around for a little bit. Thank you so much! You all are awesome!
I look forward to seeing your groups
Good luck with your community!
What do you mean “when”? You can create a community on an existing instance right now, or you can run your own instance if you want! Just check out the docs.
I think there are some legitimate concerns here though. Not necessarily of the ideology the primary devs, but the way it manifests with a soft ban on certain topics (Ukraine), and how they seem fine letting lemmygrad trolls shut down basically every other world news thread. And I'm not talking about people having different opinions here - I'm talking about users who openly state that they seek to disrupt discussion in order to deny the information space to non-ML ideas entirely. I have reported a number of these comments which are blatantly and openly stating that they only intend to troll and disrupt and nothing ever happens. Yet if you take a slightly wrong tone in responding to the sel-avowed trolls they are quite quick with the ban hammer.