Yet another lemmy instance proudly hosted in Montreal, Canada. Still need to get a icon created, if there are any designers here who would like to contribute please feel free to post!

  • borariEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    If I’m being completely honest, I’ll take communists over fascists 10 times out of 10. A leftist backbone is a convenient shield against the alt-right cancer that tends to inhabit these fringe internet communities.

    100% agreed. While I’m glad the more edgelord/4chan style of instance is blocked here, I appreciate and value the leftist ideals the Lemmy project seems to have been built on, because without them this federated platform probably wouldn’t exist as it currently does.

    The lemmy[.]ml admins have definitely handed out lengthy temp bans to people from their own instance who were posting a lot of pro-Russia, pro-China, more authoritarian left type of content for getting combative/disrespectful in comments. I don’t see why anyone cares what kind of political viewpoints a site admin has as long as they moderate fairly and don’t let their internal bias lead to them playing favorites when they should be impartial. The modlog being public is a great way for the community at large to audit that type of thing, and is one of the many things I think the Lemmy project has implemented much better than Reddit ever did.

    • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      moderate fairly and don’t let their internal bias lead them to playing favorites

      So, nobody should be an admin then? It’s nigh impossible to completely eliminate personal biases.

      The mod log being public is great, and I’ll have to make use of that.

      • borariEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I think you misunderstood me. I agree that it’s impossible to completely eliminate personal biases, which is why it’s important that administrators and moderators of any site be capable of recognizing their own biases so they can make a conscious effort to moderate fairly.

        • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Or instead, try to get moderators from different backgrounds so they can be a check on each other. Diversity is generally a good thing, and I’d like a bit more transparency on who has moderation powers.

          But the modlog bring public should at least give users enough transparency to point out bad moderation, so that’s certainly a critical aspect of it.