damn, who could've possibly seen that coming? 🫥
Respectfully, how on earth did this design get cleared? 😭
Respectfully, I just don't think this is the right post for this kind of humor.
I don't think you have anything to worry about; Kbin hasn't really been a huge vector (afaik) for spam/harassment. It's just those two instances in particular which were ballooning and creating a moderation challenge but all the admins are in conversation about pressing for better tools and refederating come that day
You can find that here in a post by Lionir on discuss.online. I'll copy the contents of that post below for anyone who doesn't want to click through.
Here’s a laundry list of sort with tons of tools we’d like to see
- Role for approval of applications (to delegate)
- Site mods (to delegate from admins)
- Auto-report posts with certain keywords or domains (for easier time curating without reports)
- Statistics on growth (user, comments, posts, reports)
- User total
- MUA
- User retention
- Number of comments
- Number of posts
- Number of reports open
- Number of reports resolved
- Sort reports
- by resolved/open
- by local/remote
- Different ways to resolved a report
- Suspend account for a limited amount of time rather than just banning
- Send warning
- Account mod info
- Number of ‘strikes’ (global and local) and reports
- Moderation notes
- Change email
- Change password
- Change role
- Ability to pin messages in a post
- Admins should be able to purge
- Filter modlog to local
- Better federation tools (applications to communities, limiting)
- Applications to communities to allow safe spaces to exist (people should not be able to just “walk in” on a safe space - similarly to follow requests in Mastodon in a way)
- Limiting (Lock our communities down from certain instances but still allow people using our instance to talk to people from those instances)
Obviously considering the moment when this is being made - federation tools are our highest priority.
“Unlike President Biden’s student loan schemes, this plan addresses the root causes of the student debt crisis. It puts downward pressure on tuition and empowers students to make the educational decisions that put them on track to academically and financially succeed,” he added.
Lowering people's ability to borrow doesn't really address the other problems which underlie high tuition costs - such as newer facilities costs, more administrative staff (both of which, IMO, heavily relate to the competition between schools to provide the most services to their students and court new student admissions), and decreases in federal and state funding coming from tax revenue which has led to much of the financial burden being passed onto individual students.
Plus, as @misguidedfunk mentioned, we already tell students their upfront cost of attendance - multiple times even before they decide to enroll or start classes - and they have to acknowledge it as part of receiving aid.
The Beehaw admins are currently working on sending out a survey, which will most likely include questions about creating new communities.
While Beehaw generally won't spin up more granular communities without a guarantee that (a) they can be properly moderated and (b) they will have a reasonable large of participants to warrant their existence - in the vein of keeping a more tightly wound, intentionally built community - you may still participate in communities on any of the instances Beehaw still federates with, or join other instances to start such communities there.
For Lemmy, right now, this is basically the nuclear option. You will have to create an account on another to interact with content on lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Although this could change in the future, what's needed right now is for improvements in the Lemmy codebase to allow for more granular control.
A similar transition took place with mastodon.social and mstdn.social when they both grew prohibitively large; however, in that case, Mastodon now offers much better tooling for moderating and managing federation. Until Lemmy's software similarly matures, this is the best solution that Beehaw can put up.
Based on some other link posts I've seen on Beehaw, I'd thought this was already the expectation. 🤭
Good thing to point out and intentionally encourage, regardless.
A country born by old white men which will die by old white men. Begins with a revolution to sever ties with a monarchy, ends with a coup to bring it back. We are truly coming full circle. 🤡
Sir, the Lord Almighty better come down and take you back with him. Take Trump too, while he's at it.
After that debate and all the things he's said since, Biden's image is at an all-time low. As ableist and ageist as it is, people think he's a senile old man in the late stages of cognitive decline, with no business running a government. I doubt he or his campaign are going to do what they need to do to overcome that perception, and I doubt the Democratic Party will make the right calls either. "Decades of civil service" and "somewhat better than Trump" etc. are not going to be enough.