this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.

Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.


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Also outs your report publicly, nice !

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

there's no feedback mechanism that will result in the promotion of instances with better moderation

the federation system is inherently unstable - there's a positive feedback loop where the instance with the most users attracts the most new users. new users have no to way to gauge the quality of moderation of an instance, and neither do disgruntled current users. additionally, members of smaller instances are less visible, which is an incentive to join a larger instance.

"what instance?" is a rhetorical question, and the only possible answer is "never heard of it." because there is no means by which a user could have become aware of other instances, regardless of the quality of those other instance's moderation

[–] RandomVideos 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wasnt there already an instance that died because of lack of moderation?

I couldnt find the instance name, but i could find posts from people complaining about the instance and it being defederated from lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if defederation from the largest instance is equivalent to death for a smaller instance, then the moderators of that largest instance are in a unique position of responsibility and power and should be held to a higher standard

[–] RandomVideos 1 points 1 week ago

By death, i meant that it doesnt exist anymore

Its not just the defederation of lemmy.world, its the only post i could find

I remember seeing that more instances were defederating when it was happening

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