It feels like the amount of both, divisive posts and ghoulish comments is rising again.

One could argue that the world has a lot of divisive stuff going on and lemmy just talks about it. But the way people post about stuff seems more oot and hateful than it has been in the past.

Not saying it is that but if I wanted to bring the Fediverse down or at least keep my customers from going there, I would sow this stuff as much as I can.

I’m blocking ghouls left right and center atm but if I ever asked a friend to join lemmy, I’d hate to think of what they would see that I dont anymore.

Do we need stronger moderation?

  • Maybe ban politics from c/memes?
  • Become a little more stringent on “dont be a jerk” rules in communities?

One thing that really bothers me is the collapsing “discourse”. Trying to mend fences and keep the conversation between sides going ime leads to nothing but downvotes and shitstorm.

I feel like a little more interaction (instead of intervention, at first) of the moderators would do wonders there.

Thanks for reading this rant. Have a nice day.

  • hauiOPEnglish
    2•5 months ago

    Very good ideas! Any idea if something like this already exists? If not, shall we work on something? I have some experience in python if that helps.

    • @blahsay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•5 months ago

      Thanks but not sure what’s currently implemented or even what the code base is written in 😅.

      I might have a poke around and see if there’s any low hanging fruit.

      Call me crazy but with a 5b ipo about to start I’d be shocked if reddit wasn’t paying some troll farms to brigade the fediverse and it’d be a shame if spez wins

      • hauiOPEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        Thats an interesting idea! Thank you very much for mentioning it!

        We can absolutely write a bot in python and could try to use it like that. I already made a discord bot so this shouldn’t be brutally hard.

          • hauiOPEnglish
            2•5 months ago

            Well, I do know some c# but not enough for it to be functional.

            You could hit me up on github or pm here to get a repo set up somehere and go from there.

            What do you think?

            • @blahsay@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1•5 months ago

              I’m currently on holidays but that sounds great when I return. I might even get started early. Can you pm the details?

              • hauiOPEnglish
                2•5 months ago

                The other person we came across now tries to somehow discredit me. Whatever their plan is. Jeez.

                Sure, I‘ll send you a pm. Have a nice vacation.

      • @BlazeEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        Thank you very much for sharing, I’ll keep an eye on it.

      • hauiOPEnglish
        0•5 months ago

        I‘m not searching for another thing to start but a way to make the current thing work. But thanks.

        • @BlazeEnglish
          2•5 months ago

          To be fair, Piefed uses Lemmy communities and comments, it’s almost just another interface.

          The reputation is indeed interesting, example in this thread with warnings “low reputation, beware!”: https://piefed.social/post/27070#post_replies

          • hauiOPEnglish
            1•5 months ago

            Ah! Understood. Thanks for clarifying.