So if your in the alt Internet sphere you might remmber Kiwi farms and the drop kiwi farms campaign to get it shut down, the argumetn being kiwi farms was linked to the sucidie of 3 people.
Recently there was controverys after the suicide of Mikayla Raines, she was getting attentio nfrom a dedicated subreddit called saveafoxsnark which appears to be gone idk if it as deleted or banned but it’s gone.
So I personally side with saveafoxsnark, however I am honestl enough to admit that I supported rop kiwi farms and do feel a bit hypocritical. I am honest enough to admit I am conflicted andpotentially wrong so I ask you
When can a community be responsible for suicide and be sanctioned over it ?
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t really know anything about the situation you cited.
For any community hosted by a corporation like reddit, the answer has to be pretty much: no discussion of self harm in the first person will be tolerated.
For communities hosted in the fediverse it’s more complex. If I were an admin, I wouldn’t allow a community to discuss self harm in the first person on my instance for a variety of reasons but most of them boil down to: Mods just don’t have the skills, experience, and resources to discern between what is an appropriate or inappropriate discussion or comment.
While a safe place for this type of discussion could potentially be therapeutic in some way, the potential for harm is just too high.
NABDad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I could be wrong, but in the case of Mikayla Raines, the subreddit wasn’t necessarily discussing self harm, but was promoting online harassment which led to suicide.