I can code, but I’ve never been a moderator. What kind of mod tools do you want?
EDIT: More discussion about mod tools: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3281
Fricking flairs, they’re very important in the communities that I’m moderating. With an ability to set multiple flairs at once because on reddit you can set only one which sucks because some posts can fit criteria to get 2 or more flairs.
Here’s a relevant GH issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/317
I’ve seen this and all related gh issues, but I didn’t see anyone working on it yet sadly.
Yea this is really important, and also we need a way to moderate the moderators so we don’t end up with the “super” mods we saw on Reddit…
Just contacting admins of your instance would do, they have the ability to remove and appoint new mods.
this is called “meta-moderation” and is a good idea @notbabayaga@lemmy.world :) it’s part of the Santa Clara Principles of transparent moderation (https://santaclaraprinciples.org/)
Ribbits
Let’s get some basics. When you try to sign up to an instance it should tell you if the username is already in use!
I personally find beehaw’s moderation weird, I get that you’re trying to create a safe and regulated space, but you simple can’t do that with 4 mods on the entire instance. I do think that their decision to jump to defederation is a result of these 4 people being overworked and simply not having the time to rationally evaluate the situation.
if they want to continue like this they’ll have to evaluate on whether to appoint proper mods to their communities or just decide to change their stance on “safe” content.
Honestly, I respect their decision but at the same time I wonder why they didn’t create a standalone unfederated from the get go.
If you want to keep the community small and tightly nit it’s just not compatible with the federation system. Now people got invested in some beehaw communities only to end up disconnected from them.
Still, it’s not like there is a guide for this. We are all learning how to make the federation work. I hope we can keep it civil toward instances that choose to defederate.
We are all invested in the same thing: Making Lemmy successful.
Most of Beehaw’s blocks are “generic ActivityPub assholes”, which, before the Reddit migration, was really just the worst of the worst of Mastodon, Pleroma, Soapbox, and Miss/Calc/???Key instances, with the occasional PeerTube thrown in.
They likely just imported one of the common blocklists and moved on with their lives, which really should be “how to secure your community 101” but most Lemmy admins haven’t seem to have gotten the memo yet.
I’m patiently waiting for the day those assholes realize most of Lemmy is open ground for them to shit in, boy that’s gonna be a fun few days.
Beehaw admins: there are only four of us moderating everything
Community: so ask people to be admins mods
Beehaw admins: i can’t understand a goddamn word you’re saying
Edit: meant to say mods not admins
