Hello world!
We would like to start by saying thank you ❤, no really 🙏 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 📣 loud and clear📣.
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.
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 🤘😜🤘
Ideally you would enforce these policies collectively by de-federating an instance, “that’s the beauty of a decentralized system”. The problem thus far with Lemmy is how terribly it has failed this goal. Too many are nonchalant about letting autocracy fly no problem. Meanwhile the .world instance, which suffers from this problem of absolutism, is where most of the sub members flock. There’s such a tiny user base here (probably because of the tendency for staff to smother the part about social media that’s most important: inclusivity of ideas and perspectives) that I’m sort of on the fence about leaving entirely if the only populated ones are essentially closed off to me.
You better believe I’m going to criticize this terrible system. The idea of creating a place for voices, except they’re all the same voices, is a remarkable failure.
The developers do not control who to defederate from. Only instance admins can decide that. There is no collective decision to defederate; every instance must make that choice independently. It wouldn’t be very decentralized if there was such a collective.
You don’t need to be on a populated instance. You can just as easily access content from a small instance or even a personal instance. I’m not sure what you mean by the populated ones being closed off to you, but there are many instances out there, surely some of them align with your views. If not, you are of course free to start your own instance.
Duh.
Which instance do you think has the majority of the content/users…
If you guessed the same one that I’m criticizing for censoring me, you’d be correct.