Hello world!
We would like to start by saying thank you β€, no really π THANK YOU to ALL the moderators out there!
Without you folks, we would have no one to help keep our community safe and help build the communities both here on Lemmy.World and on other fine instances. To this end, we want to make sure your voices are heard π£ loud and clearπ£.
So, in the spirit of transparency, we would like everyone to know that we are looking to help out the folks working on Sublinks. Over the last several months we have grown to be more than just Lemmy.World. We've added platforms such as Pixelfed and Sharkey to help offer our users more diverse options for expressing themselves online. We still are very committed to Mastodon as well.
We DO NOT plan on moving away from Lemmy as a software platform at this time. Any changes in our core services would need to be discussed extensively internally AND externally with our community members. We firmly believe in the growth of the Fediverse and without the users, there would only be software, and that's no fun!
Sooo...
The Sublinks team has written up a little survey, which we feel is both thorough and inclusive. It covers a wide range of topics, such as user privacy, and community engagement, along with trying to gauge things that are difficult when moderating.
Also please be aware the information collected by this survey is completely anonymous. As many of us in the social sciences background know, if you want the REAL feelings of individuals, they need to feel safe to express themselves.
πModeration Survey HEREπ
Please feel free to comment in this thread, we will do our best to respond to any genuine questions.
We look forward to hearing from each and every one of you!
=Sincerely,
Fedihosting Foundation
PS ... also if this sounds like a corporate press release to you folks, we still punk π€ππ€
I reckon it's less people not understanding, and more not to want to give up their account history.
The old account is still there if you need to refer to a previous comment.
You "reputation" (in "people recognizing you in comments") can be the same if you keep the same name and avatar.
There are no karma requirements anywhere on Lemmy.
The one I get is moderators that don't want to move their communties, but for individual accounts, there isn't much to lose (and trust me, I have around a dozen alts)
If people are really angry at their instance i'd guess they would like to delete their account, not keep it around. But yeah probably more an emotional than a rational thing, still a thing though.
I definitely noticed you changing instances all the time :) I personally would rather have a home base that i'm happy with and not change all the time.
Of course, I think everyone wants that. But don't expect the first place you try to be that place. Or at least, you need some good reasons for why the first place you try will be that place.