So far Lemmy is vibing. Everyone here is excited and optimistic and willing to put up with a few rough spots to be part of something.

When the Eternal September comes, which it will, how does a Lemmy instance deal with bad actors?

  • tebee@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It turns out Lemmy has a mechanism for federating block lists.

    So if you get banned by lemmy.ml for “Orientalism”, you get a fediverse-wide ban? That doesn’t sound like a better system than reddit, that sounds like a worse system! At least reddit mods could only kick you out of their own subreddit, not the whole site.

    • bobaduk@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Well that’s what I mean by “islands of trust”. If an instance has a habit of banning people for dubious reasons, other instances would have to just ignore their bans, and that makes it dicey to federate with them at all. It’ll be interesting to see how it shakes out over the next few weeks.

      • tebee@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Have you checked the link? We aren’t talking about racism here…