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.

  • Scew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    10 months ago

    Another place I frequent got rid of the downvote so if people actually disagree with you they have to use words to make their point. Kinda funny how that solves a lot of issues.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOPEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago

      I did exactly that but I wasnt allowed to federate with the others until I enabled it again…

      • BlazeEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        Really? I thought that Reddthat and Beehaw disabled down votes while still being federated

        • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOPEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Dont know. When you have your own instance, you get admin settings. If you disable downvotes, it says others might not federate with you or such. Its been a couple months since I last looked in there.