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

Let the instance wars begin!

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 advanced 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.)

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

Honest question. Wouldn’t them coming over here be good and make it larger?

They moderate rigorously.

Participating in one of their threads is like attending a university course.

Most people don’t have the context to actually participate in the discussions, but the quality is on a completely different level.

If your post isn’t atleast 5000 words, it will be deleted.

What about spam? Stuff completely unrelated to the community? Porn?

Certain heavily moderated subs made sense, like ask historians, where the purpose of the sub was to have actually knowledgeable responses instead of internet ass-pulling.

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.

To techbros, people doing voluntary work for them is something to be exploited, not rewarded. They see the mods as saps as they would never do anything for free.

He can’t ban it on Lemmy.

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?

What communities should I be avoiding?

Sweeping generalizations are never good or correct.

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.

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.

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

AskHistorians, AskScience, WhatIsThisThing, etc.

Maybe this is another example of Sturgeon’s law.

That’s the case for every sub with a political undertone.

Most subs for your favourite hobby is usually nice. Unless your hobby is US politics, believing walking dogs 5 hours a week is a job, or inventing a patriarchal society to tear down.