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  • Look at what Reddit is saying. It’s absurd:

    For UK users under 18, Reddit said it has to restrict sexually explicit content; content that promotes suicide, deliberate self-injury, and eating disorders; content that incites abuse or hatred against people based upon protected characteristics; bullying content; content that promotes violence or “depicts real or realistic serious violence against a person, an animal, or a fictional creature”; content that promotes challenges or stunts that are likely to cause serious injuries; content that encourages people to use harmful substances or substances in harmful quantities; content that shames people based on body type or physical features; and “content that promotes or romanticizes depression, hopelessness and despair.”

    WTF? How is this supposed to work? A system that auto-blocks all NSFW tagged content itself as a blunt instrument is viable - but half the stuff on here, on Reddit here isn’t even necessarily tagged as NSFW when its posted. Are extreme mountain biking or skiing or skateboarding or other similar types videos going to be age-gated because they could be content that “promotes challenges or stunts that are likely to cause serious injuries”? How do you verify whether or not content specifically romanticises “hopelessness” or “despair” exactly? Are Giles Corey songs now 18+? What does that even mean? Even the writing of it is Orwellian.

    It also adds “depicts real or realistic serious violence against a person, an animal, or a fictional creature” ???

    Are action movie clips now going to be age-gated? Or video game clips? From TV shows and films that are PG-13?














  • Truth be told, I don’t want this place, or the Threadiverse, to be considered a lefty safe-space any more than I’d want it to be considered a right wing safe-space. Honestly, I just wish people would leave their political ideology at the door and just interact as people.

    Sure, I’m just noting its wider reputation.

    It’s not considered extreme really (*excluding some instances). I know you’re referring to calls for violence to certain political figures but it’s as nothing as to what you’ll see on Twitter or 4chan.


  • As it stands, I’m embarrassed to tell people what I do in my spare time (run an instance and interact on Lemmy). You get a “normie” coming in off the streets, and what are they going to think jumping into this place? Are they going to want to stick around?

    I don’t think telling anyone you moderate a community on Lemmy and interact on Lemmy is somehow more embarassing than telling them you moderate a community on Reddit (for comparisons sake). People who would mock you in some way for that would do so whether or not its Reddit or Lemmy, and likely would just view all of it as inherently nerdy anyway.

    Lemmy, from my observation has more of a reputation to outsiders as being a lefty-safe-space (closer to Bluesky) than anything else. It’s really not that close to 4chan at all given the sheer gore and overt racism and hatred on there. I know what you’re getting at here, but the dredges of 4chan and Twitter have outright open nazi apologetics in front of everyone. Also, given how unpleasant Reddit can get at times (at least just as bad as here) - I don’t think the type of conduct you’re referring to is inherently a problem for budding social media sites. Not excusing it, but just that it doesn’t seem to be an existential factor.

    What “normies” want, if anything, would be non-political communities taking more of a focus. Which I am certainly trying to do.










  • Maybe the instance model isn’t the right one for long term federated communities.

    The primary problem here is community mobility. If any community could be, with a few key presses, decoupled from an instance and essentially plopped onto another maintaining all of the posts, comments and subscribers - it wouldn’t matter as much at all. Piefed has community migration, and I assume that is ultimately the end-goal. It just needs all the major instances to read and recognise such moves.






  • I’m really not interested in going down the rabbit-hole here on this with this user - but I have no reason to believe they’re lying. I suspect I could probably look into this users posting history and confirm consistency here, but speaking generally - opposition to democrats/centrists/liberals (insert any other terms you like) also comes from the some of the left. Hell, if you’re on Lemmy you must be well aware of this given some of its more controversial instances are full of them.

    You might consider them useful idiots, or you might not. But they are genuine. But the broader point is that there’s not much point going at it with a user who you think is just lying to you.