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Stamets, 1 year ago to lemmy_support in Posts being auto-removed or auto-hidden

Oh it was an instance ban. Not a community ban.

I wouldn’t say odd so much as “inconsiderate” and “petty”. The modlog of the community I was posting to showed zero removals or problems. It was the modlog of the instance as a whole. So it wasn’t even easy to find in the first place. Top that off with wildly inconsistent meanings of the rules. Their rule 1 is “Don’t be bigoted/racist/sexist/etc”. Hilarious given they removed an anti-homophobia post for that. They removed another post where the meme was “If you don’t respond my trans homies I’ll change your pronouns to was/were”. That was removed for rule 2. To “Be respectful.”

The extreme lack of communication by moderation, the lack of warnings, the lack of any consistency, and the hypocrisy is beyond rank. When you’re removing posts protecting trans people because it’s “Not respectful” or when you’re removing posts shaming Disney for homophobia then it only goes to show how utterly repugnant, backwards, backhanded, nonsensical, and dishonest the moderation and admins teams are on lemmy.ml.

This is the last comment I’m ever making on this instance. You’ll never see my main account here again or this account ever be used again. I don’t trust the people here. Especially when doing some research and it seems that lemmy.ml got co-opted by lemmygrad and is slowly turning into hexbear 2.0.

I go out of my way to be polite, kind, considerate and to listen to others. If someone had an issue and they wanted to talk then I’d be here. The mods and admins never did that. Never even thought of doing it. That is some wildly reddit behavior and it’s specifically what I left reddit to avoid. It’s also what I’ll be avoiding at all possible costs on lemmy.

scrubbles, 1 year ago to lemmy_support in how to receive alert when comments removed?

The only thing I can think of is to somehow subscribe to the modlog. That will have the entire thing.

As for moderation, you aren’t dealing with a huge corporation, you’re dealing with individuals who choose to host their own server and have their own ideas for how it should run. If you don’t like it, the true freedom is that you can start your own instance and communities. But you need to put in the work to convince people to switch.

otter, 1 year ago to mildlyinteresting in Looking for new Moderators

There’s not much to do really. On the web, you’ll see a little pencil icon near the community name, which lets you change things (ex. Sidebar text, images, settings).

It’s up to you how you want to do things. I’d recommend adding a description to the sidebar for what you want to see in the community, and any relevant rules. People in your community will need to follow those rules, as well as the rules for the lemmy.world instance (ex. Think local laws vs. national laws), so you don’t need to cover everything.

No shame in copying rules from other places, such as the Reddit equivalent, when you’re not sure.

Day to day, you’ll see reported content in the mod page (little shield icon up top) and if you want to remove a post you need to open the comments and then find the button for it.

@xylinna I’m happy to help out while the community is cleaned up again (if you guys want more help), but I probably won’t stick around since I think Jimbabwe can handle it :)

botorfj, 1 year ago to memes in On this day, in 1965, the Indonesian military in collaboration with the US Government initiated a coup that would lead to the slaughter of more than a million Indonesian Leftists.

wtf is this doin in a meme community? am i in the wrong instance or something?

otter, 1 year ago to asklemmy in Moving from reddit rn, a good place to get started?

Welcome! I’d recommend subscribing to !communitypromo, to see recommendations over time.

We also have a guide for finding new communities here: lemmy.ca/post/5581032, which I’ve copied below for you.

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A great way to find lesser known communities is to look at the /communities page on an instance. For example: lemmy.ca/communities

For a list of instances to look through:

• pangora.social (NEW): Great way to find instances related to a particular topic. This is also great for picking an instance when first making an account/moving accounts.
• awesome-lemmy-instances: not that organized, but it

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🔎 Search pages

• lemmyverse.net/communities
• browse.feddit.de (run by feddit.de)

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🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions

• Instance Assistant: Browser extension with tools to help you redirect & search for communities
• Voyager Migrator: Tool to help you migrate Subreddits

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🙌 Communities for discovering new communities:

• !communitypromo: You’re here right now
• !trendingcommunities: Daily posts with the trending communities from across the threadiverse
• !newcommunities: Find out about new communities

Here are some other communities, some of which are less active:

• !wowthislemmyexists
• !lemmy411
• !findacommunity

Remember, you can also post questions about finding new communities right here!

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👽 Coming from Reddit?

• sub.rehab: You can sort by official replacements & sister communities
• redditmigration.com: List from the migration
• quippd.com: Another list created by a user during the migration

RandomVideos, 1 year ago to memes in Have you heard of our lord and savor Federation?

Lemmy is a selfhosted, federated social link aggregation and discussion forum. It consists of many different communities which are focused on different topics. Users can post text, links or images and discuss it with others. Voting helps to bring the most interesting items to the top. There are strong moderation tools to keep out spam and trolls. All this is completely free and open, not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms.

Federation is a form of decentralization. Instead of a single central service that everyone uses, there are multiple services that any number of people can use.

A Lemmy website can operate alone. Just like a traditional website, people sign up on it, post messages, upload pictures and talk to each other. Unlike a traditional website, Lemmy instances can interoperate, letting their users communicate with each other; just like you can send an email from your Gmail account to someone from Outlook, Fastmail, Proton Mail, or any other email provider, as long as you know their email address, you can mention or message anyone on any website using their address.

Lemmy uses a standardized, open protocol to implement federation which is called ActivityPub. Any software that likewise implements federation via ActivityPub can seamlessly communicate with Lemmy, just like Lemmy instances communicate with one another.

The fediverse (“federated universe”) is the name for all instances that can communicate with each other over ActivityPub and the World Wide Web. That includes all Lemmy servers, but also other implementations:

<span style="color:#323232;">Mastodon (microblogging)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">PeerTube (videos)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Friendica (multi-purpose)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">and many more!
</span>

In practical terms: Imagine if you could follow a Facebook group from your Reddit account and comment on its posts without leaving your account. If Facebook and Reddit were federated services that used the same protocol, that would be possible. With a Lemmy account, you can communicate with any other compatible instance, even if it is not running on Lemmy. All that is necessary is that the software support the same subset of the ActivityPub protocol.

Unlike proprietary services, anyone has the complete freedom to run, examine, inspect, copy, modify, distribute, and reuse the Lemmy source code. Just like how users of Lemmy can choose their service provider, you as an individual are free to contribute features to Lemmy or publish a modified version of Lemmy that includes different features. These modified versions, also known as software forks, are required to also uphold the same freedoms as the original Lemmy project. Because Lemmy is libre software that respects your freedom, personalizations are not only allowed but encouraged.

Choosing an instance

If you are used to sites like Reddit, then Lemmy works in a fundamentally different way. Instead of a single website like reddit.com, there are many different websites (called instances). These are operated by different people, have different topics and rules. Nevertheless, posts created in one instance can directly be seen by users who are registered on another. Its basically like email, but for social media.

This means before using Lemmy and registering an account, you need to pick an instance. For this you can browse the instance list and look for one that matches your topics of interest. You can also see if the rules match your expectations, and how many users there are. It is better to avoid very big or very small instances. But don’t worry too much about this choice, you can always create another account on a different instance later.

[instance list screenshot] Registration

Once you choose an instance, it’s time to create your account. To do this, click sign up in the top right of the page, or click the top right button on mobile to open a menu with sign up link.

[registration page screenshot]

On the signup page you need to enter a few things:

<span style="color:#323232;">Username: How do you want to be called? This name can not be changed and is unique within an instance. Later you can also set a displayname which can be freely changed. If your desired username is taken, consider choosing a different instance where it is still available.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Email: Your email address. This is used for password resets and notifications (if enabled). Providing an email address is usually optional, but admins may choose to make it mandatory. In this case you will have to wait for a confirmation mail and click the link after completing this form.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Password: The password for logging in to your account. Make sure to choose a long and unique password which isn't used on any other website.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Verify password: Repeat the same password from above to ensure that it was entered correctly.
</span>

There are also a few optional fields, which you may need to fill in depending on the instance configuration:

<span style="color:#323232;">Question/Answer: Instance admins can set an arbitrary question which needs to be answered in order to create an account. This is often used to prevent spam bots from signing up. After submitting the form, you will need to wait for some time until the answer is approved manually before you can login.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Code: A captcha which is easy to solve for humans but hard for bots. Enter the letters and numbers that you see in the text box, ignoring uppercase or lowercase. Click the refresh button if you are unable to read a character. The play button plays an audio version of the captcha.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Show NSFW content: Here you can choose if content that is "not safe for work" (or adult-only) should be shown.
</span>

When you are done, press the sign up button.

It depends on the instance configuration when you can login and start using the account. In case the email is mandatory, you need to wait for the confirmation email and click the link first. In case “Question/Answer” is present, you need to wait for an admin to manually review and approve your registration. If you have problems with the registration, try to get in contact with the admin for support. You can also choose a different instance to sign up if your primary choice does not work. Following communities

After logging in to your new account, its time to follow communities that you are interested in. For this you can click on the communities link at the top of the page (on mobile, you need to click the menu icon on the top right first). You will see a list of communities which can be filtered by subscribed, local or all. Local communities are those which are hosted on the same site where you are signed in, while all also contains federated communities from other instances. In any case you can directly subscribe to communities with the right-hand subscribe link. Or click on the community name to browse the community first, see what its posted and what the rules are before subscribing.

Another way to find communities to subscribe to is by going to the front page and browsing the posts. If there is something that interests you, click on the post title to see more details and comments. Here you can subscribe to the community in the right-hand sidebar, or by clicking the “sidebar” button on mobile.

These previous ways will only show communities that are already known to the instance. Especially if you joined a small or inactive Lemmy instance, there will be few communities to discover. You can find more communities by browsing different Lemmy instances, or using the Lemmy Community Browser. When you found a community that you want to follow, enter its URL (e.g. feddit.de/c/main) or the identifier (e.g. !main) into the search field of your own Lemmy instance. Lemmy will then fetch the community from its original instance, and allow you to interact with it. The same method also works to fetch users, posts or comments from other instances. Setting up your profile

Before you start posting, its a good idea to provide some details about yourself. Open the top-right menu and go to “settings”. Here the following settings are available for your public profile:

<span style="color:#323232;">Displayname: An alternative username which can be changed at any time
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Bio: Long description of yourself, can be formatted with Markdown
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Matrix User: Your username on the decentralized Matrix chat
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Avatar: Profile picture that is shown next to all your posts
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Banner: A header image for your profile page
</span>

On this page you can also change the email and password. Additionally there are many other settings available, which allow customizing of your browsing experience:

<span style="color:#323232;">Blocks (tab at top of the page): Here you can block users and communities, so that their posts will be hidden.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Interface language: Which language the user interface should use.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Languages: Select the languages that you speak to see only content in these languages. This is a new feature and many posts don't specify a language yet, so be sure to select "Undetermined" to see them.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Theme: You can choose between different color themes for the user interface. Instance admins can add more themes.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Type: Which timeline you want to see by default on the frontpage; only posts from communities that you subscribe to, posts in local communities, or all posts including federated.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sort type: How posts and comments should be sorted by default. See Votes and Ranking for details.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Show NSFW content: Whether or not you want to see content that is "not safe for work" (or adult-only).
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Show Scores: Whether the number of upvotes and downvotes should be visible.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Show Avatars: Whether profile pictures of other users should be shown.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Bot Account: Enable this if you are using a script or program to create posts automatically
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Show Bot Accounts: Disable this to hide posts that were created by bot accounts.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Show Read Posts: If this is disabled, posts that you already viewed are not shown in listings anymore. Useful if you want to find
</span>

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DagothUr, 1 year ago to memes in Your big brain conservtive/capitalist takes will be laughed at

Nerevar, mortal, I, Dagoth Ur(the god), sense your presence in my Lemmy instance. I must admit, it pleases me to have an individual from a politically left-leaning community among my followers. Your alignment with progressive ideals aligns with the principles of change and transformation that I represent.

As for the Communists, while I may have a dislike for them due to ideological differences, I acknowledge their existence as beings in this world. They have their place in their beliefs, and I would prefer they adhere to their ideologies. However, I do wish they would read up on history to gain a deeper understanding of the consequences of their actions. Ideologies, once adopted, are seldom forgotten, but knowledge can shape the path forward.

satnififu, 1 year ago to memes in Reddit is dead. Long live the Fediverse.

I’ll probably get hate, but the content just isn’t there. I tried using Lemmy as my main, but most of the communities I’d follow on Reddit just weren’t on here, and if they were, they would have a couple hundred of subscribers at most, and there would be 7 different versions of the same community on different instances with no way to measure quality at first glance. Lemmy thrives for geeky hobbies that surround the FOSS space that gave birth to it, so communities like Linux or Unixporn have a strong enough presence, but for pretty much anything else it’s just not there yet. Is this a negative feedback loop? Yes, but there isn’t much to be done about it until shit REALLY hits the fan

PD: As an added, Lemmy can get incredibly circle-jerky at times, even more so than Reddit already is. Like seriously at times 90% of the content on my feed is just shitting on Reddit plebs

otter, 1 year ago to newcommunities in Share your playlist - A community to share yours or other people playlists

Any thoughts on building this community on a different instance? It’s better for the system if communities are distributed, and you also get related communities close to each other.

Few good ones for this:

lemmy.film/communities

poptalk.scrubbles.tech/communities

Dave, 1 year ago to memes in Don't get your hopes too high

The great thing (though it’s sometimes a curse) is that posts in any community will show up in the local and all feeds on the host instance, and the all feed on remote instances so long as at least one user is subscribed. So even communities with low subscribers can reach a wide audience.

Piers, 1 year ago to memes in sToP pOsTiNg pOliTicAl mEmEs!!!

Lemmy.ml is fundamentally a communist community. Leave it and join somewhere like Lemmy.world if you want to be part of a community that doesn’t have a political agenda. This energy you are expanding complaining that a social network isn’t meeting your expectations could be more productively spent just checking which ones do and which ones don’t. You might as well be complaining about all the Star Trek memes on the Star Trek Lemmy instance.

Drusas, 1 year ago to asklemmy in What do you think about Lemmy, so far?

Good aside from all the repetitive content. One of the problems with federation, I suppose. Someone sees an article they like and they feel they have to post it on every community related to politics on every instance they can find, for example. Mostly a politics problem, but also memes and gaming and technology. Okay, not mostly a politics problem.

Dragonmind, 1 year ago to asklemmy in What do you think about Lemmy, so far?

I feel like Lemmy is on its way and its main benefit is that it’s not as cynical as Reddit to EACH OTHER.

So many people on reddit gripe about the smallest shit, especially the Steam Deck reddit, that conversations become either you’re with my ideas or you’re against my ideas. Like even though you’re just trying to help others play a game, “I’m insulting you for free because of the way you said lowest fps is 33 with drops down to 29. I don’t think it means what you think it means.” (of course shoving a meme in there because that’s their identity at this point)

I clearly meant average, but oh here comes -20 comment score when I explain that.

I see nicer comment chains from people on opposing political sides here even though I know a usual reaction these days would be to tear at each others’ throats. Lemmy isn’t devoid of it, but Jesus at least it isn’t like how Reddit predictably uses a scalpel on your comments to find something to complain about.

But I think this might be the result of tailoring my experience over time with instances I want to see from and communities. That level of customization is awesome. But it does suck to see so many instance drama things happening in a much more rapid pace than reddit.

schwim, 1 year ago to mildlyinteresting in LOOKING FOR NEW MODERATORS

I wonder if the abandonment occurred around the time that image uploads were disabled, old images wiped and instance was often down. That’s about the time I realized it was basically impossible to moderate and contribute to a community I created on the instance. I now handle mod duties from another instance, one that is usually accessible and allows image uploads.

MonsieurHedge, 1 year ago to memes in I'm not even sure I want to know

I have never see anything worth the hate.

You just have a very high tolerance for jackassery. You've seen plenty of evidence of hexbear hostility, i.e. the "dunk tank" that would justify not wanting to interact with hexbear users and have actively chosen to disregard it.

This is because you're kind of a jackass. Disregarding people engaging in good faith with "just trust me bro" is exactly the kind of thing people really hate hexbear users for. Not because of illegal activity or moral failing, but because they're assholes. While you may think this isn't worth de-federation, unfortunately moderators aren't some kind of legal authority, and if federating with hexbear means instance admins or community moderators need to put in triple the work to prune all the arguments and """shitposting""" hexbear users love, nobody is legally or morally required to put up with it.

It's legitimately that simple. Hexbear users are jerks and nobody wants to hang out with them, and that's enough to ban them from any given community or instance.

flashgnash, 1 year ago to memes in Defediverse

I think where that falls down is if a big community is in X instance, the instance admins have control over that instance

Doesn’t matter what instance you switch to if the communities you participate in are under that instance’s control

Not saying that’s a huge problem yet but it could turn into one and then we get powermods all over again