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what's the asshole mitigation plan? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by bobaduk@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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So far Lemmy is vibing. Everyone here is excited and optimistic and willing to put up with a few rough spots to be part of something.

When the Eternal September comes, which it will, how does a Lemmy instance deal with bad actors?

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[-] bobaduk@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Agreed on all points! It turns out Lemmy has a mechanism for federating block lists. What will be interesting is when instances disagree about bans. If you get banned from an instance because - hypothetically - you disagree with the actions of one government or another, it's not obvious to me that other instances should repeat the ban.

Will we end up with islands of trust?

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Islands of trust, in an archipelago of less-trust, in a sea of no-trust, is probably pretty okay.

Real islands have coast guards and customs offices.

If Usenet newsgroups had come with default killfiles — which users could choose to override — the whole thing might have turned out differently.

[-] tebee@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

It turns out Lemmy has a mechanism for federating block lists.

So if you get banned by lemmy.ml for "Orientalism", you get a fediverse-wide ban? That doesn't sound like a better system than reddit, that sounds like a worse system! At least reddit mods could only kick you out of their own subreddit, not the whole site.

[-] bobaduk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Well that's what I mean by "islands of trust". If an instance has a habit of banning people for dubious reasons, other instances would have to just ignore their bans, and that makes it dicey to federate with them at all. It'll be interesting to see how it shakes out over the next few weeks.