• kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    The community was removed from lemmy.ml by their admins. Here’s the reason in the modlog:

    Unmoderated duplicate of /c/usa . Any world-related can use /c/worldnews

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      4 months ago

      Lemmy & the fediverse needs to be more modular.

      We need… something like a “transfer, merge, fork, split” for communities.

      For example, if these guys are just going to nuke that content, another instance should have the opportunity to either fork it, or merge it with another community. Its mostly the same stuff as would have been in c/Politics here.

      And what it does now, is it puts even more editorial power in the hands of fewer people (ones that ml probably) don’t vibe with.

      Classic boneheaded decision.

      • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz
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        4 months ago

        We need… something like a “transfer, merge, fork, split” for communities.

        People can do it currently. I’ve done it a few times, for all for cases. You just make an announcement on the community, or on !newcommunities@lemmy.world if you are splitting from a power tripping mod.

        • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          I meant in a technical sense. As in, hey here is a community with a mod on a power trip. I’m going to clone it, it lives here now: !somewhere@lemmy.world

          For example, we could have cloned this sub and its contents and merged it into c/politics.

          • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz
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            4 months ago

            But then what prevents someone from cloning a community to 50 instances, or cloning 50 community to 1 instance? Seems like an easy abuse vector

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              4 months ago

              Yeah idk. This was a criticism that I brought up of the fundamentals in lemmys structure early on: it selects for, effectively, clones of “whole reddits”, when it should be set up to support more balkanized instances.

              Basically, lemmy.ml’s c/Politics is functionally redundant to .worlds c/politics; but thats by design.

              What I think would be better would be adding tagging and taking federation a step further. Every post needs a ‘tag’; we steal that part from mastadon. It can have many, but it needs at least one, say #politics in this example.

              Then, on instances, federation happens both at the instance level but also at the community level; communities can federate with other communtiies. But all posts get #tagged on the way in the door. Communtiies can then federate or defederate at will, and if neccessary, a community can “branch”; for example, maybe they want to split off US politics from politics; then you grab all the posts with the #US.

              As far as an abuse vector. Thats just hang wringing. IF your mods are that abusive for a large sub, you’ve got way bigger issues. Which, if it did ever happen, is something that “forking” would solve. Mod on a power trip? No problem. Fork the community.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Seems like lemmy.ml is really collapsing in on itself. Overall not good for the general health of the fediverse. We need large “sibling” instances rather than monoliths like .world, which is to say nothing of the politics of the instance. The fewer “medium” to "large’ instances are, the more reliant the whole system becomes on “very large” monoliths like .world, which overall weakens the integrity of the network.

    This also highlights the destructiveness of toxic moderation. There is plenty of it here too, but there needs to be some kind of accountability/ redress if open & free communities are going to be a long term project. Not really a big deal in the long run and something we’ll just have to keep working on.