Ok, I've changed how this works, as discussed. Now only one lemmy.ml community has a warning.
Thanks to cabbage for starting this discussion to resolve it.
I agree this feature could do with a lot more finesse. Currently it is hardcoded to show on every lemmy.ml community, which is clumsy and over-powered. I'd like features that let the instance admin specify custom messages for any instance and any community.
How this feature is used is then up to the instance admin. They might choose not to have any messages.
With my instance admin hat on - I'd definitely keep this message on worldnews@lemmy.ml as that is the one which regularly caused bewildered posts by people wondering why they were banned. All other communities on that instance seem relatively benign and don't really need a warning.
I'll wait a few more hours to gather more feedback and then make a ticket for this.
Yeah, I absolutely agree lemmy.ml has no business hosting a large worldnews community without proper warning.
I'm not sure if it's necessarily bad. There is precedent for unconventional moderation practices on lemmy.ml and I'd like to see some people to move away from the large communities there and their moderators.
I'd like a more scientific approach. Implement that feature and then see if it contributes to a healthier discussion or has negative side-effects. At this point it's just speculation and we can't tell if it helps or attracts trolls.
Is this a piefed feature? To add warnings about other instances?
It's an experimental feature. If you post on Beehaw it shows a reminder that Beehaw has a stricter code of conduct than most instances, and remind you to be nice.
PieFed is also developed specifically to be unappealing to tankies and fascists, which I think is generally wise, but of course certain measures might be more successful than others. :)
PieFed is also developed specifically to be unappealing to tankies and fascists,
I like you
Yeah.
Often people will not be aware of the rules a community has (they don't read the sidebar or are on mobile where there sidebar is hard to find) OR, as in the case of worldnews@lemmy.ml, the rules are written deceptively and there are many unwritten rules. Having an additional message that is front and center above the 'compose a comment' input field is an attempt to deal with that.
We need alternatives to defederation which is too extreme and total. Mastodon has muting and silencing, for example. I'd like to figure out whatever the threadiverse equivalent of that is - some way to allow access to those who want it while steering naive users away from places where they're going to have a bad time.
I agree as well. Fediseer supports censures and hesitations towards instances. You could ingest those and allow piefed to report how they see others and how other see them
Great idea.
I've been trying to get into fediseer but piefed does not provide the necessary API to let me claim my instance. I think that's what it is - I get an error message "There was an api error: Only admins of that piefed are allowed to claim it. ". Do you have any docs I can look at which might help me know what endpoints I need to make?
Fediseer tries to understand the api of each software and then looks for the admins of the site to pm. Do you have an api endpoint which lists the admin usernames?
Yes, I have tried to copy Lemmy's /api/v3/site endpoint because I saw a lot of requests to it in the server logs.
https://piefed.social/api/v3/site
Actually I can see a few differences that need tidying up... 'name' is not correct and 'displayName' is missing, for example.
I've fixed up the name and display_name parts of the JSON, incase that endpoint is the one you're after.
An idea that has been spinning in my head a bit is to allow people to subscribe to different levels of moderation. Basically allowing users to choose a "curated", "moderate", or "liberal" experience.
Curated: Whitelist of servers rather than blacklist. Well-moderated instances only.
Moderate: Blacklist rather than whitelist, but blocking annoying instances like Lemmygrad and Hexbear. Aiming at a wide yet enjoyable experience.
Liberal: Blacklist, but only blocking instances that allow (or are incapable of handling) content that goes against the content policy.
It's probably more difficult to implement than what it's worth. What I like about it however is that it would make the whole process of content curation much more transparent. Right now it's often not so clear to people signing up to an instance what kind of moderation policy they will be signing up for. At least this would allow the user some agency even after sign-up.
What about a feature to recommend a better community than whats offered on lemmy.ml. "Have you considered joining News@Lemmy.world?"
Tankie admins are a missing stair and people deserve to be warned.
It's an issue even in communities you wouldn't think of as political. Another reply mentions OpenStreetMap... which is illegal in China. The Chinese government mandates that people lie about the shape of the Earth. Many obvious responses to this absurdity would get you a boot in the ass for "orientalism." Oblique criticism of that moderation, in turn, will get you a boot in the ass under their rule against bigotry... as if polite feedback against abuse of authority is intolerable hatred. Because they're such fans of democracy, you see.
And they're big enough that many communities are hosted there by surprise. Linux stuff, piracy, webcomics, video games - whoops! Your opinion has been deemed wrongthink. The people's workers' family super happy fun time council is the bestest and most democratic one-party state everrr, so how dare you take issue with a foreign superpower dictating that men in video games cannot wear skirts.
Highlighting the instance is a great idea. I might do that in-browser, as a CSS hack. I appreciate that this reader calls out that information when it's especially relevant.
Osm community modlog says nothing like what you just made up there.
Linux
piracy
video games
Of course some cannot be find elsewhere (open source, osm, jellyfin, fdroid), but at least there are some alternatives
test
What the actual fuck, that's dystopian as fuck and not even true. What the instance doesn't allow is outright disinformation bordering fascist propaganda, and you can get that 'warning' by looking at the clearly marked rules. Who was the pervert who wrote this McCarthyist bullshit?
Not bad for a three-sentence comment!
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