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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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[-] Ozymati@lemmy.nz 69 points 1 year ago

I think it's important to enable account portability across instances, like what Mastodon has. It should be easy for people to move to a different community, back up their data so they can re-substantiate their known persona if their instance goes poof, etc.

[-] bappity@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

definitely. account migration and maybe community migration (unsure how that'd work exactly) would be great. losing history every time an instance shuts down isn't very fun

[-] BarackObama@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Could you potentially export your preferences and list of subscriptions to a JSON file, which you could then supply to a new instance?

[-] gh0stcassette@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Almost definitely, but no guarantee a new instance will have the same communities 1-1 though. It would be really useful for resubbing to non-local communities thought

[-] camelCaseGuy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I was thinking about this, actually. Wouldn't it be better to have users-only instances and content-only instances? That way you can have an instance with a policy towards certain subjects (e.g.: bigotry, racism, sex openness), but you chose the content you want. Just like if it were a cable or streaming service. You choose the content you want.

BTW, is there a place to discuss this? How to improve Lemmy and next steps? Also as a way to know how to contribute.

[-] gh0stcassette@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Self-hosting might be the only way to do this, I imagine any instance with enough users will have people wanting to post locally

[-] camelCaseGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not necessarily. Again, having content and users separated and the instances with different concerns seems like a good way to simplify operations for users and server admins/mods. And from the instance POV is just what kind of features do you enable.

Content generation only? Users creation only? Both?

It's also easier to make a service out of it.