And, if you are comfortable with sharing, what are some of the worst things that you’ve seen?
I don’t see disturbing stuff that often, usually few times a year, but it’s usually some very disgusting csam.
Most of the time it’s just spam and trolls, but from time to time these degenerates show up.
It doesn’t really have any lasting effect on me, I kinda manage to not think about it at all. I guess my aphantasia helps here as well, I think it’s much harder for folks who can visualise things in their mind.
I moderate a few smaller but active ones. I don’t see a whole lot of bad stuff apart from the occasional garbage opinion such as [insert least favorite ideology here].
This might be because the places I mod are pretty chill in nature. I’m sure of the topic was something more volatile and spicy, such as politics, it could be a different story.
There was a while after the Reddit exodus where apparently lots of CSAM was being posted. I never saw it personally, but apparently it was a big issue.
Most things are ads, spam or people reporting comments they politically disagree with.
There was a troll spamming cp some time ago, but that was before my time as a mod / admin.
people reporting comments they politically disagree with.
Wouldn’t this be mod abuse?
You might have misinterpreted it. It referes to users falsely reporting users they disagree with. This often happens in the context of political discussions.
What I didn’t mean is removing comments I personally disagree with. This would indeed be mod abuse.
Sorry I meant that idiots flooding mods with false reports is abuse of mods ie creating extra work for the mod and taking hsi time away from the actual job.
I can see threat actors using this tactic to wear down the mod team.
You are right. We had some of those. They’re gone now.
EDIT: I was confused, since mod abuse is usually associated with mods acting unprofessionally / in bad faith.
So far I’ve just seen some deeply racist memes and comments. Thankfully it hasn’t been very frequent, so it’s not really been anything I had to cope with mentally or anything.
Some freak posted a pt cruiser. Therapy bills in the thousands.
This community was included in that spamwave a few months ago. I saw a few CSAM here. We had to lock the entire community down to deal with it.
That spamwave at the time was happening in the entire fediverse btw.
Not an admin or moderator but dear god it must be difficult to cope mentally and emotionally for any and all moderators to see truly disturbing stuff. That’s a salute they don’t get enough credit for.
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No one wants to join my instance
FYI, you can now post instances at !newcommunities@lemmy.world :)
What does your instance (I’m presuming redlemmy.com) offer that sets it apart from the rest?
you may have found my problem
Do instances offer something that set them apart from the rest?
If not, then people usually don’t move to them
Well, now I wonder what it is that an instance may offer over others. I just picked an instance from some resource that said to pick something popular but not too popular and had some suggestions. Wonder what I’m missing from other instances
I wonder what it is that an instance may offer over others
Here is a non-exhaustive list of things that I think are important when considering an instance:
- Stability — eg uptime, how quickly outages are addressed, etc.
- Speed and responsiveness — eg how quickly one can download resources from the instance, how quickly pages can load, etc.
- Accessibility of the admin(s) — eg how easy is it to get in touch with the instance admin(s)? are they open to communication?
- Cost sustainability — eg how is the instance funded? Is their model sustainable?
- Infrastructure sustainability — eg how is the instance powered? Is it in a stable location?
- Local Laws — ie what laws is the instance subject to?
- ToS — ie what rules does the instance impose on its users?
- Who is the instance federated and defederated with, and what is their criteria for federation?
- Other smaller things like ability to upload media, number of local communities, number of users, front-end/appearance, etc.
Things I personally look for in an instance:
- An active admin that has a level head and seems like a good person (preferably multiple admins to prevent Bus factor)
- Instance runs a fairly recent version of Lemmy. If they run a very old version, that could be a sign of problems
- Is defederated with troll or drama filled instances
- Having a unique theme or vibe instead of being a general server is a big plus that makes it stand out, but not strictly necessary
I think that It depends on the instance, but I would argue that, generally, yes.
None so far on
Isn’t this on the same level (hilarious and obvious fetish request) as asking a soldier how many people they’ve killed?
Personally, I’m asking it because I’m considering running an instance of my own, and I want to know what to expect. This is an issue that concerns me.
Deal, I’ll upload human roadkill pics when your instance is up. Seriously though, running a public host that could potentially cache horrendous abuse imagery is a liability worth considering. The nasty anime subs on /all are concerning enough.
