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I’m guessing in the same way as Bit Torrent and others before it … with big flaming headlines, politicians foaming at the mouth, lawyers rubbing their hands with glee and the world for the general public becoming a little bit more shit whilst the actual miscreants carry on with impunity on some other platform or get funded by venture capitalists who make everything legal but no less palatable.
Source: I’ve been here for a while.
Why do you care about votes?
What makes you think that a defederated instance votes are still captured?
Why do you care about what happens on another instance?
Should I be worried that I know precisely what you’re referring to?
Also, report and block is all fine and well, but my client and the web client both automatically load the image, so the miscreants know precisely which account opened it.
Not to mention that I have to open the account to block it.
Is there a better way?
Can your detection method be automated and federated?
I’m asking because this is probably the thin end of the wedge and is likely to increase exponentially, especially since anyone can set up an instance and do whatever they like with it.
So, you are attempting to “solve” analysis paralysis by using invites?
That doesn’t appear to make any sense. It doesn’t really matter which instance someone joins. The whole network is federated. You can access all the content from anywhere.
I get that WhatsApp is not a platform to use if you care about your privacy, but WTF is “Delta Chat” and why would I switch to it rather than say Signal?
We’re building a new federated social media universe to distribute it rather than it being centralised in a few single companies like Meta and Reddit. It consists of several different service ideas like Lemmy, Mastodon and PeerTube, over 40 in all. Each of those has hundreds of different instances where little and larger communities share with each other and with other communities and services. We call this Federated Universe the fediverse. Wanna join?
Word of caution, it doesn’t render on Connect for Lemmy.
The thing about free speech is that there’s a whole lot of legislation surrounding it. At the moment, every single fediverse instance is run by( a small group of) people, many of them are run by individuals who are legally responsible for the content that’s posted on their site.
In addition, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, better known as the DMCA and the General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR, have requirements for people who own and publish data, like the people who run instances, not to mention privacy acts and myriad other provisions and laws.
Non compliance is very easy and costly, so instances who are aware of this are cautious in what they allow on their instance.
Finally, many instances want to create a community with a social cohesion and associated standards that they, depending on the level, encourage or enforce.
Why any instance bans something at any one time can generally be traced back to these reasons.
Of course there are also instances where it’s completely open season. Don’t expect these to stick around once lawyers get involved.
It’s true, but it’s not obvious if you’re new to the fediverse, since until now the closest we’ve had to decentralized communities online is Usenet and that’s only familiar to you if you’re been online for 30 years or more.
I think it depends on where you go. I’ve seen lots of supportive behaviour across the fediverse.
As an end user, ie. not someone who either hosts an instance or has extra permissions, can we in anyway see who voted on a post or comment?
I’m asking because over the time I’ve been here, I’ve noticed that many, but not all, posts or comments attract a solitary down vote.
I see this type of thing all over the place. Sometimes it’s two down votes, indicating that it happens more than once.
I note that human behaviour might explain this to some extent, but the voting happens almost immediately, in the face of either no response, or positive interactions.
Feels a lot like the Reddit down vote bots.
I think that the missing link for the fediverse is the user interface that most users see.
This is oxymoronic given that the original Reddit looks eerily similar to Lemmy today, but it’s not just looks I’m talking about.
Moderation and usability tools, bots, blocks, filtering and spam control need to go through several iterations before we can actually grow this community.
Search is another issue, as is post deletion. Right now a post vanishes, but all the stuff hanging off it is still there. This makes for a complex user experience.
Finally, Lemmy appears to be run by developers who appear to be interested in their own issues and regularly appear to dismiss issues raised by users. This is not sustainable.
I consider myself a user of the fediverse before I’m a Lemmy or Mastodon user. We have a way to go before this settles down.
I am part of the Reddit exodus. I’m here because I have no interest in promoting or supporting the atrocious policies that now govern Reddit.
The pace here is different, but the interactions feel more measured.
Based on being online since 1990, I’m comfortable with being an “early adopter”, even though I’ve only been here for a few months and Lemmy is five years old.
Will Lemmy survive? Who knows. The horse and buggy didn’t, neither did Yahoo!, MySpace or Google+, but here we are nonetheless.
I like it here.
I suspect that this will require backend support to implement. Raise an issue in the Lemmy repository.
Is this not a slightly selfish action? It solves the problem for you, but doesn’t make the community better for everyone. I feel like blocking users should be reserved for issues like harassment, not spam.
This is an aspect that I had not considered. Even thinking about it now leaves me unsure of the best way forward.
Specifically, whilst it’s a valid argument that blocking the user only solves this for me, and not blocking would help me see if the issue was dealt with, I feel that leaving the user free to roam across my screen is impacting me directly and if I’m not a moderator in a community, it’s not my place to second guess their decision to leave such a user and post in place.
In other words, I’m stating to a moderator that I think that this post is spam and should be dealt with accordingly, but if you leave it alone, that’s your choice.
I moderate several communities outside of the fediverse and spam in my communities is a one-strike ban. That’s not what everyone does.
Having now thought through this again, now in more detail, I’m comfortable with blocking the user.
I’ve noticed a sharp increase in spam and I’ve been reporting each one simply as “spam”.
I then block the user
Many of these posts have dozens of down votes.
Several go back months, which I discover when a new variant turns up.
I’m unsure if what I’m doing is helping or not, and as an ICT professional, I’m not sure why this obvious spam isn’t caught earlier.
Thank you for the menu suggestion!
A search engine?