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  • You are free to do whatever you would like with your server, but I won’t pretend this is isn’t pretty disappointing.

    I’ve enjoyed this community a lot from what I’ve seen so far, and was very happy to have my main account live here.

    However, while I appreciate a place that is focused on being nice, and freely hostile to the hostile, I’m not interested in an experience so sheltered that it feels hidden from the world at large. In regards to your statements that you wanted to avoid an echo chamber, this action seems very contradictory.

    To be clear I don’t think your issues were small. Trolls flooding your instance from larger instances is terrible and must be overwhelming and unsolvable for your small mod team. However, I see this as growing pains for a platform like this. I expected a response like petitioning your recently grown community for additional moderators. I didn’t expect a rejection of the larger lemmy community and the growth it has been experiencing.

    I’m not exactly certain how all parts of federation work yet, but I hope I’ll be able to find a server that is a 3rd party, and federated with major instances as well as beehaw, where I can make my new account, and see the greater breadth of content I desire, without being cut off from beehaw. If anyone could recommend a server, that would be greatly appreciated. If that isn’t how it works and isn’t possible, then at least, thank you beehaw for introducing me to the fediverse.








  • I’m very glad to have you running a space like this. It is spectacular.

    At the same time I can sympathize with what he said to a point. I don’t want to see hate speech just casually existing in public forums, but I also sometimes look at the spaces they use, out of a sort of morbid curiosity of what they are up to. It is often depressing and I consider it a bad habit, but knowledge is also power, and knowing what they are thinking can help a person avoid it.

    With the nature of the fediverse and how accounts can be made on multiple instances no issue, I don’t think it is by any means your job to facilitate that sort of thing.





  • In my experience while the amount of moderating done was comparable, the actual content that got removed was different.

    In left spaces you would often see people with conservative opinions getting banned and deleted… After they started saying slurs or insulting people. Some people would argue that whether or not something is considered a slur or an insult is a difference in political opinion, but those kinds of things are already against the reddit site-wide rules so it’s moot.

    In places like r/conservative, people would get banned for being aggressive and insulting people, but also for ever presenting an opinion that isn’t strictly in line with modern conservatism. The moderators of that subreddit used bans to remove any and all dissent no matter how severe or mild.