https://lemmy.ml/c/usa
Historically, I've perceived Reddit as slightly left leaning, with strong pockets of conservatives. Recently though, a vast majority of comment sections seem to excuse violence, such as in this thread (TW: police brutality), where people say things like ::: spoiler TW: Supporting violence
The students didn’t hurt the bullets, right?
They paid to learn so....... You go learn today
Um...good?
Follow the rules of the people who own the property. If they ask you to leave then leave. Don’t interfere with people’s incomes or you’ll end up finding the fuck out
Got it. The next time I stand on a private piece of grass that I paid 200 grand for the privilege of using, I should expect to be shot at like I deserve. I'll keep that in mind.
When the owner of the property wants you to move on? Yeah. Move on. Or don’t and find out.
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And I'm seriously wondering when Reddit got so bad that the hivemind supports calls for violence. Are these humans? Are they bots? Why does reddit allow this conduct?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/16/world/activist-fake-letter-climate-new-zealand-intl/index.html
A climate activist in New Zealand faces 10 years in jail after a court found her guilty of forgery for sending a fake letter to the speakers at an oil industry conference, telling them it had been postponed due to the climate crisis.
Hello! We've reached 15k members (afaik we're still the largest community on lemmy). It's a lot for only a couple people, though there is admin support.
I'm looking for a couple people to join and help moderate. Ideally you:
*Genuinely not sure what constitutes reasonable, I suppose it will be case-by-case. It's a little frightening to appoint someone who just came via the reddit migration, but I understand that 4/5 of this community are newish so it's fine. The main hope is that you'll stick around.
Ideally I'll pick a few people out in the coming days. I'm also going to correspond with the admins before changes.
Thanks
There's been an influx of content surrounding lemmy here. Some of it is open ended:
And these are a-ok! There's also been a lot of questions like
These aren't open ended (at least, relatively). They are objective based, and just need a resolution, rather than discussion. These sort of questions are more relevant to !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml.
I know there's also questions like "What are you guys doing when there’s multiple communities for the same thing across instances?". I'm inclined to let those stay, there is lots of opportunity for discussion. It's a game of discretion from a moderation perspective, but I assume most can easily guess what is cold hard support.
At least from me, moderation of support posts has been sporadic at best, despite the long standing rule. I will begin redirecting these questions to !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml, however I'm of course willing to listen to the community here if that's not what is wanted, as well as other feedback.
edit: support posts will now be removed, not locked
Hi everyone, welcome, ect... It might go without saying but lemmy is open source! The platform is written in rust and typescript (which is a big pro for me). I'm sure we all have our little gripes with the platform, and those are fixed with collective teamwork :)
These are "good first issues", here is a contributing guide), and here is a chat where developers coordinate.
Let's make the best link aggregator!
Hey all, I think it's unfair for me to be the only moderator (plus the admins!).
I was trying to find some good candidates and I certainly found many, but I think it's much more fair to open the floor for nominations.
Some groundrules so this goes smoothly:
This is somewhat of a popularity contest, although note I do not promise the most popular candidates will be the ones selected.
This post will be updated when mods are appointed with the logic behind appointment.
@mekhos@lemmy.ml has been appointed. This is because
Hey all, if you notice any comments that clearly don't belong here please hit the report button! In the next few days I will be checking in every few hours to ensure this community is in tip top shape.
I have also recruited two new mods.
Email is already nicely federated, but I think it's time for a change. Services like protonmail claim to offer encryption between users, but you can't host your own instance. It would be awesome if there was a spec somewhere for a federated email service that defines
I'm just spit balling here. Does anyone have any ideas? Does something like this exist?
Thanks, Evan
@Cloak
@lemmy.ml