Comment on do you think lemmy will ever be popular?

• LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah I don’t want it to become a cesspit like Reddit, Facebook, and Xitter.

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  • Atemu@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You’d typically think the abuse that happens on a higher level than dumb spam which those platforms succumb to would be even worse, but I feel we’re somehow in a slightly better position to regulate that on Lemmy because of the delegation of moderation to users rather than instance admins.

    We “just” need a relatively small amount of the “right” people to effectively counter that.

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    • LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The problem is that who and what you consider to be right is extremely subjective.

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      • Atemu@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Their success is relatively easy to measure objectively by their effectiveness at protecting communities from i.e. subtle trolls or troll enablers.

        Though one’s opinion on topics can influence the ability to spot such scum in the moment, the “right” people/a good moderator will know how to do that despite their topical (dis)agreements.

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