Comment on How come as of today I can't access politics@lemmy.ml from lemmy.world?

kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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    • btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You just make an announcement on the community, or on !newcommunities@lemmy.world if you are splitting from a power tripping mod.

      How does this work? Are you just talking about starting a new group on the same server?

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• btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Geez I can’t believe a major group was nuked just like that. I never noticed anything about it being unmoderated but thank you for providing the explanation.

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  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lemmy.ml admins making rash, sweeping decisions that are conveniently harmful to any public discourse? I never would have guessed.

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    • Draegur@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Central planning committee knows what’s best now eat your slop or it’s the gulag for you /s

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    • btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Geez even with decentralization we still have people making bone headed decisions. What is the best/strongest politics group that is not lemmy.ml nor lemmy.world?

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      • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are so many politics communities, but before you mentioned this I didn’t realize how are concentrated they are on .ml and .world. These look like the most-subscribed USA and World politics communities that aren’t on .ml or .world:

        !politics@hexbear.net
        !usa@midwest.social
        !worldpolitics@lemmy.ca
        !politics@sh.itjust.works

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      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I get not wanting to interact with lemmy.ml

        Whats wrong with Lemmy.World? Or are you just saying its too big?

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      • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Beehaw has a fairly active politics comm, their moderation is more on the strict side but it’s “hey be nice and dont use slurs” kind of strict and not “how dare you say Russia is bad banned” kind of strict. Otherwise it’s .world.

        !politics@beehaw.org

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      • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        !Pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net might interest you. It’s an experimental community that employs a really interesting bot that scans users all across the lemmyverse, and prevents the most toxic people from participating. It seems to work fairly well, so far.

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