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DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 year agoI do see a severe lack of moderation in the Fediverse though. Everywhere are extremistic views being spewed by far right & far left users and mods don't give a shit, even after reporting those people. Insults stay, conspiracy bullshit stays, pure bigotry stays, the most heinous hate stays, and more importantly those corresponding accounts stay.
It really makes me want to use it less and less. I already blocked Lemmy.ml instances but it's such a widespread issue in many of the largest communities. If you combine that with the already pretty low engagement on those various platforms then I don't really see the point anymore.
squiblet@kbin.social 1 year ago
Where are you seeing that? I have seen extremist left views. People wanted to defederate from Lemmygrad and Hexbear over that, plus annoying trollish behavior, and many instances did. There was extremist rightwing BS on exploding heads and rammy, and people wantged to defederate... and did. Other than that, I see people acting polite, reasonable, and debating in complete sentences. I really can't think of any examples I've seen of what you're talking about. I guess I've looked through the modlog and seen some abusive posts... but well, that's been moderated already.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 year ago
https://kbin.social/m/modernmisogyny for example, which is basically a TERF community by one user, which I tried to PM to ernest some months ago.
Or here a somewhat recent thread for Starfield which still hasn't been removed: https://kbin.social/m/starfield@lemmy.zip/t/468548/Alternative-sources-for-the-No-Pronouns-mod-for-Starfield
You can check the user profile for even more garbage too.
There was also a user here on kbin that was constantly trolling. He seemed to have quit a month ago though, or at least stopped commenting.
squiblet@kbin.social 1 year ago
Well, okay. The first one hasn't had a post in 4 weeks. The Starfield post (link doesn't work...) I assume was left up because people have a perception that moderation on reddit was heavy-handed and mods were power hungry, and mods and users are trying to avoid that on Lemmy.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 year ago
Link works fine for me?
Getting rid of hate & extremism is the bare minimum that I would expect a platform to moderate on. Reddit moderated very differently in keeping that in addition to banned those who speak out against it.