The influx of new users here has also encouraged a lot of unsavory denizens to relocate here as well.
I’ve already been harassed by a user and I am seeing a few trolls here and there posting with impunity and provoking users. We need better moderation or else shit will go downhill very fast here.
Basically this. I do try to skim over many of the new posts here, but I’m not here 24/7, so reports are very much appreciated for helping pinpoint spammers and worse.
Also a little reminder that community moderators (& instance admins besides the owner) are community members as well, which is to say, they’re simply here in a similar way to anyone else. You can even spin up a community here to see what tools mods have to work with if you happened to be interested, which uh…Is definitely another area of improvement for Lemmy; and if you were really dedicated, you could spin up a whole instance to see what the admins have to work with, which I gather is also somewhat lacking.
Regardless, don’t be afraid to use the report tool, DMs, & support communities, e.g. !support, for reaching out to mods/admins for any negative interactions you run into and behavior that appears in direct violation of a community’s rules, & the instance code of conduct. Also in the event a community itself is a concern and you don’t want to report posts/comments there out of concern of its moderators targeting you, go straight to the admins via DMs/email or whatever other contact method they offer outside of the instance, as this is likely the safest way to approach that situation.
This is up to the people who start communities, to try to take care of by recruiting mods (which I’ve seen happening a lot the last several days).
As well as on us individual users. If you see unsavory things in a community you otherwise like… “be the change you want to see in the world,” as they say.
In the same vein, I’m noticing a bunch of communities are already being moderated by the same people (who appear to have just gone through and squatted a bunch of popular community names). Is there a plan to fix this going forward?
It’d also be great to block all the shitposting subs. Beans are great and all but I’d like some actual content. Maybe we should reconsider karma. At least give people an incentive to contribute good content.
Unfortunately, it motivated people to post content that would be upvoted, which, given the state of popular posts on Reddit over the last year or so on Reddit, has become very different from “good” by which I take you to mean “valuable”.
Give time for the dust to settle, and the shitposts and memes should congregate to a few communities, which can be filtered from our feeds if desired.
It seems (given the beans) that the newly enlarged user base is in the “spaghetti against the wall” phase of posting, just trying to see what sticks.
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