th0mcat@talk.thomcat.rocks 2 years ago
I should probably put this on the GitHub issue tracker, but a great feature would be a shared banlist by category. This would allow crowd sourcing the banning of spammers across any Lemmy instance that wanted it.
One of the problems I for see with it is there would probably need to be some kind of source of truth, which could get a little "authoritarian".
GenkiFeral@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
yes, transparency. If we see the same 5 groups or leaders reporting 45% of the people on Lemmy to be banned, we might want to investigate whether these people aren't a bit intolerant of other points of view. It could be that they are simply diligent, but maybe not. Personally, I learn a lot from well-informed differing points of view that tell me facts in a patient, polite manner. People often jump to conclusions and think their values are the only ones that matter. Taken to extremes, this leads to intimidation and a type of witch-burning.