- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@discuss.online
- fediverse
- foss@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@discuss.online
- fediverse
- foss@beehaw.org
cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/7623713
I made a blog post discussing my biggest issues with Lemmy and why I am kind of done with it as a software.
Not just retaliation bans but also harassment and threats in DMs. Really community mods have no business being able to see who sends reports, only admins do, and even then, only admins on the homeserver of those reports, admins of remote instances should only get to know the instance it came from, nothing else.
I’ve also experienced problems with this on more than one occasion, mods can essentially protect bad faith users and their community from having action taken due to policy violations by resolving all reports without action. I’ve gotten around this by DMing admins directly (on Lemmy.world it can also be done by emailing info@lemmy.world) but there should really be grandular options like on Mastodon, both for forwarding to community mods and also whether or not to forward to remote instances.
I disagree with this, transparency is important because without it, it enables abusive moderation practices which are much more difficult to uncover or find out about, also domain blocks should be visible because it allows people to know which servers are federated and thus which instance they should pick. Without transparency we get the incredibly user-hostile shadow moderation that places like Reddit are known for.