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SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• mkmusic@torishiro.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works @animemes@ani.social
  
  pretty sure admin is just trying to make much ado about nothing here. that's what most Discord servers are about nowadays

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  • shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Discord is a platform notorious for child predators. It’s a genuine problem on it.

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    • mkmusic@torishiro.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works @animemes@ani.social
      
      i saw your comment, and wondered "how bad is the situation actually"? I didn't know how bad it was. I'm so sorry you had to see this in the memes today. I apologise for my lack of sensitivity on the situation.
      You've just alerted me about the predator problem on Discord, which is so massive, I think I might consider leaving the platform now... or at least, stop checking as often as I used to...

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      • shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s alright. Most people aren’t aware of just how bad it is. I’m only really aware because I’ve spent time moderating servers, and while I was never exposed to anything myself, I know people who have been. I still use the platform since my friend group is on it, but hopefully we’ll eventually find a different one that meets our requirements.

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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All platforms are notorious for that. Moderation is expensive, and consistent free user moderation is extremely hit or miss, mostly miss.

      Unless you have enough admins dedicated to moderating every community regularly, like weekly at a bare minimum, shit will get out of hand in the places they don’t visit.

      For places the size of Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Lemmy, YouTube, etc. that’s just not feasible without an army of paid moderators. User submitted reports are only useful if the users aren’t partaking, and that’s the first tier of nearly every online moderation system because few companies could even consider staffing a moderation team even remotely large enough to begin to tackle that problem.

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    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Any sufficiently large group has child predators. It’s not just a discord problem.

      It’s easier to just say humanity has a child predator problem.

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      • shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Of course it isn’t just a Discord problem, but its popularity and accessibility means that it’s one of the platforms with the most issues.

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• sag@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most people use it. So, I too used It’s the best platform to build a community believe it or not. There’s even a built in forum in Discord now. 🤷

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